Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard?

From	William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux, alt.os.linux.mint
Subject	Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard?
Date	2016-09-29 08:09 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<nsii8d$26v$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<nsgnf2$efg$1@sunce.iskon.hr> <nsi9rq$eri$1@gwaiyur.mb-net.net>

Cross-posted to 2 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

On 2016-09-29, Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> wrote:
> On 28.09.16 17.26, Vaso wrote:
>> I've installed Mint 18.
>> Can I simply connect  that disk to another motherboard,
>> or I should to Install Mint again?
>
> Unless you have built your own Linux kernel that exactly matches you 
> current hardware all Linux kernels in all standard distributions I know 
> have no dependencies on the actual hardware. Only the architecture 
> cannot change, e.g. moving from UltraSparc to x86/64 or moving from 
> x86/64 to x86/32.
>
> So just put your disk into the new computer and you are fine. If the new 
> hardware is supported by a newly installed Mint 18 it will be supported 
> by your existing installation as well.
>
> There are a few configuration hacks that could break this compatibility. 
> E.g. if you modified the kernel command line in grub in a way that 
> conflicts with the new hardware or if you blacklisted some kernel 
> modules that are mandatory for the new hardware. But nothing of that 
> will be done by the standard installers.
>
> Of course, you might need to do some adjustments in the new hardware. 
> E.g. if the graphics chip changed and you used a proprietary binary 
> driver like nvidia you should uninstall it if it no longer matches your 
> hardware.

Does Mint use initrd? If so that could be hardware specific.

>
> BTDTMT.
>
>
> Marcel

Thread

How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? Vaso <branko.vasiljevSPAM@xnet.hr> - 2016-09-28 17:26 +0200
  Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-09-28 09:26 -0700
    Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-28 12:42 -0500
      Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-09-28 10:50 -0700
        Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2016-09-28 17:50 -0400
  Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2016-09-28 18:44 +0200
    Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? Vaso <branko.vasiljevSPAM@xnet.hr> - 2016-09-28 19:16 +0200
      Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? Z <z@ajbchqjwrn.com> - 2016-09-28 19:20 +0200
      Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2016-09-28 21:45 +0200
  Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? Alfred Myford <myford100@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-28 14:41 -0500
  Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-09-28 12:52 -0700
  Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2016-09-29 07:46 +0200
    Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-09-29 08:09 +0000
      Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2016-09-29 12:53 +0000
      Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2016-09-29 19:15 +0200
        Re: How to Migrate Mint18 to another motherboard? Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2016-09-30 19:55 +0000

csiph-web