On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 10:10, Jonathan Rawle wrote: > Gary Waters wrote: > > > Yes, this is a newbie question...sorry ;-) > > > > I presently have an ECS K7S5A motherboard with an SIS-735 chipset. I'm > > running an AMD XP2000+ CPU. I am considering upgrading to the ECS KT-600 > > Motherboard with a VIA KT600 Chipset: > > > > http://www.ecsusa.com/products/af1lite.html > > > > The Board does have SATA ports, which I will not be using. I will more > > than likely upgrade to an XP2600+ or higher CPU. > > settings for > > My question is simple: will Fedora survive the transition and/or what > > should I expect in terms of results? > > > > I replaced my motherboard a while back, and the only problem was caused by > moving the hard disk to a different controller (hde to hda). As far as I > could see, there were no references to hde anywhere, yet the filesystem > check at boot was still looking for hde and thought there was a serious > disk error - it dropped to a root shell and refused to go further. In the > end, I had to comment out the relevant lines in rc.sysinit. After booting, > I put the lines back, and from then onwards it worked perfectly. > > I reported this in one of the newsgroups at the time, but no-one could > figure out why this problem occurred. > > Once that problem was solved, all other hardware was detected perfectly, > including graphics, sound, USB hubs, etc. So unless you are moving the hd, > it should be fine. > > > Jonathan Where I worked I had a 20GB drive I used to install in systems with RH9.0 to diagnose system problems, from PI, Pent Pros., Duron, Athlon, and on without any issues except 3D video cards. Go at it! -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
