On 2020-12-10, J. Roeleveld <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, December 10, 2020 4:23:09 PM CET n952162 wrote: >> I need a new mainboard. What will happen if I boot my existing system >> on it? >> >> If it would come up, what would need to be (re)emerged, as a minimum? >> >> TIA > > Unless you really reduced the drivers available on your system or > you're going to a lesser system (64 -> 32bit, or something like > that), I would expect the system to simply boot.
Many of us do "reduce the drivers availabing" to match just the hardware in our system. > If not, you only need a live-cd/usb/... and rebuild the kernel and > any drivers your new system needs. > It's not MS Windows that might try to load incompatible drivers and > ends up with a blue-screen. Well, the screen doesn't turn blue, but it's possible the kernel won't even boot. -- Grant
