Maybe. The BIOS on the new motherboard may not be able to read the disk
geomptry of the hard disk as set up by the old motherboard. If this happens,
you won't be able to boot from the hard disk. Same brand helps, but I assume
it isn't the same model, and BIOSs change over time (in this context, to
accommodate ever larger hard disks).
But do try. You won't hurt anything by trying, and if it does work, you
avoid the work of a reinstall.
At 04:24 AM 2/28/00 -0800, Ben Holm wrote:
>
> Right now I have a 2 or 3 year old Pentium II 233 (66 MHz bus) system running
>Caldera Openlinux 2.3. I planning on upgrading to a Pentium II 450 (100 MHz
>bus) board / processor sometime in the next couple weeks. I plan to stick to
>the same brand motherboard as is currently in my machine, just to make the
>transition a little less risky. Can anyone tell me what I can expect from
>Linux? Anything I should do to prepare? Can I just pop in the new board and
>processor and boot safely?
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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