New MB recommendations

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 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).

The initrd has absolutely nothing to do with the CPU.  Its tied to your 
kernel, which is built for whichever CPU it was built against.

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