I was once running a Cyrix 233MX processor on a Biostar TX
board, then went to a DFI VIA Apollo board with an AMD K62-400
processor, and had no problems with a Mandrake 6.0 install. That is,
the install from the 233 worked on the 400 as well. (Of course
Windows had to be reinstalled, but........) I too use loadlin, which is
much less picky (in my experience) than lilo, and encountered no
problems there either. I think Windows gives users problems
because it configures itself pretty well to the hardware it runs on,
whereas Linux is designed (more or less) to run on anything.
On 26 Jan 00, at 11:33, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote:
> I have Mandrake 6.1 installed on what is now a dual boot system (98, MDK).
> My second HD has a win partition on it (FAT 16) for storing of files, and
> the rest is Linux'd. My system is currently a P233mmx (Gigabyte board). My
> new board is a Gigabyte BX chipset. CPU will be a PII 450. I am (for now)
> going to take all the parts out of the 233 to make the new system runable.
> So the question is:
>
> Since I have Linux installed on it's own drive, can I just pull the drive
> out and install it in new machine with successful bootup? I don't use lilo
> now, I use loadlin. Will this be a problem? What problems will I encounter
> in this swap out ??
>
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