[clue-tech] upgrade question

[Christopher Pomasl]

JD. Brown wrote:
>>>If I buy a P4 sans hard drives and just slap in my two existing physical
>>>hard drives, will the system be smart enough to pick up on the hardware
>>>changes during the boot process, or am I risking some unsuspected system
>>>chaos?
> 
> 
> Whatever the outcome is? Just make sure you backup your data first............ 
> 
> I did this one time with a PII 233 and swapped it over on a PIII 700. It went 
> smooth up until the hard drive card (on board) gave my hard drives hell. I 
> just had to do a bit of tweaking. It worked.
> 
> I've also had dead nightmares on other systems. :( 
> 
> 
> 
> JD

I just went through a dead nightmare.
I was running SuSE 9.1 on an old PC with a P3.
It died, refusing to even get to the point of booting, dying in the POST routines.

So I did the computer shuffle and ended up reloading everything on all of the 
computers.  I moved our internet server to my personal machine by doing the hard 
drive shuffle...turns out one of my hard drives was dead though.  I'm wondering 
if that was the problem in the first place because the DELL optiplex I put it 
into also wouldn't go through the POST routines.  Isolating out the hard drives 
showed the drive wasn't spinning and whatever was wrong was whacking out the IDE 
controller.

But the internet server was running XP Pro and it wouldn't boot either...but it 
got past the POST routines, just wouldn't load the OPSYS.

What I'm driving at is that you may have more problems with your dual booting 
Windows OPSYS than with Linux but I can't call my experience a valid test for 
Linux since the drive was dead.....(luckily /HOME was on a second drive.....I 
love Linux!!  It is so easy to segregate things.)

Regards,
CJP


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