> I am going to replace the processor and the motherboard of my > computer, but I will keep all hard-drives where FC5 is installed. The > new processor is an Intel P4 Dual Core and a new kernel (the smp one) > has to be installed. My question is: have I to install the entire FC5 > or it suffices to install only the smp kernel? It may work, or it may not - it depends :-). If the new motherboard requires any new kernel modules you may not be able to boot the old kernel because the required modules are missing from the initrd image of the old boot partition. You can probably update the initrd image somehow from a rescue mode boot, but I'm not expert on just how to do that.
