New MB recommendations

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>
> <snip>
>>>>
>>> I would try to keep the same controller.
>>> I would try to simply swap out the MB and fire it up.  Will my older
>>> kernels work on a P4, for example?
>>
>> Depends on how customized those old kernels are.  If its a distro kernel,
>> then it should be fine, except for the initrd.
>>
>
> Tell me about that for a minute.  I haven't looked at that for awhile
> (making an initrd).  Is that generated by the distro installer?  In the
> past, I have been able to copy an entire hard disk, OS and all, onto a
> new disk and have that disk boot.  But that was always on this same P2
> machine.  It sounds like I will not be able to just pop my old drive
> from the P2 into a P4 and have it boot?

You never stated which distro you're running.  In every distro I've ever 
used, the kernel package install script creates the initrd.  The installer 
has nothing to do with this process.

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