Upgrading the Motherboards of Linux Boxen?

synchronicity asks: "I just got a new motherboard and processor and would otherwise like to keep my system setup exactly as it is now. Every site I have visited about upgrading a motherboard and processor ends with something to the effect of 'When your machine boots up, Windows will be confused for a little bit, but will detect all your hardware as new, reboot itself a few times, and then you'll be up and running again.' All well and good, except that I don't run Windows. So what do I need to do to get my Linux (Mandrake 7.2) system to recognize the new PCI bus addresses/interrupts/etc. to make this upgrade a success?" What things do you do in preparation for such a procedure?

Comments

As everyone else is saying...

[cr0sh]

You shouldn't have any problems, or very few.

I did an upgrade from a P200 motherboard with 96 meg of 72pin SIMM memory, to a Celeron 366 with 128meg of SDRAM (since then expanded to 768 meg) - and I think the only problem I encountered was with my ZIP drive not working properly due to a funkiness with the parallel port, but that was due to a bios setting, IIRC.

Anyhow, you shouldn't have any problems. As you can see, mine was a pretty radical upgrade (waaay different motherboards, chipsets, RAM, etc), but it was really easy.

Now, you want to know about funky - you should see my hybrid SuSE 6.3/7.2 Personal install/upgrade...