On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 23:42 -0400, Dave wrote: > how would the kernel autodetect the new hardware, the audio cards > wouldn't be the same, and load appropriate modules?
It just would. The kernel knows what hardware is present, and the driver modules know which hardware they support. All that's needed is for something to link the two, which (from memory) is one of the responsibilities of the udev package. The only complicated case is if the drivers for accessing the disk are to be modular, since you can't load the drivers from disk if you can't access the disk. The solution to that is to create an initramfs image (which is loaded by the bootloader), but that's a bit of a nuisance unless actually needed. Simon.
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