New MB recommendations

[Tony Alfrey]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

My tweaked Caldera and several SuSE

> In every distro I've ever 
> used, the kernel package install script creates the initrd.  


Yes, that's what I meant.  Will initrd then be dependent on the flavor 
of the cpu?  It sounds like it must.  I never really thought about what 
the package install script does in a distro.  Is it actually compiling a 
kernel or just providing links to libraries and drivers and so on with a 
pre-compiled kernel? (I'm not at my linux box now to actually look at 
initrd).


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Tony Alfrey
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