Motherboard swap & FC5

[Perrin49]

My MythTV box is is dying a slow death. I believe the ECS K7S5A has finally started into it's death throes.

I've ordered another mobo (ASRock K7VM3) and plan on using the same video card & capture card.

I know Windows can have issues when you do stuff like this (although there are ways around those issues), is linux as forgiving? Are there many "gotchas" that I should keep an eye out for?

[Deathspawner]

If you know Linux well, it may not be that large of a problem. I once switched motherboards and had no problems at all, except for the sound driver which was different on the new board.

One thing you may want to do is make sure you can get to a command prompt from the boot loader, instead of straight into GDM. That way, if you can't boot with the new motherboard, at least you can get to a command line and do whatever you need to do to get back up and running, aka: recompiling a new kernel.

Or, maybe FC has a repair or re-install feature that will take care of it.. I'm not sure. You may also want to post on the Phoronix forums and ask there. The site editor uses FC exclusively and has likely had to do this in the past.

[Perrin49]

Thanks.

I'll be sure to check that site out.

[enaberif]

It depends on what you have done to linux. If you have re-compiled the kernel to use your the hardware that you have then yes linux can have issues the same as windows.

If you use the default kernel that came installed with the system you SHOULD be fine.

[Perrin49]

It is the default.

The new Mobo was shipped yesterday so i should have a kick at the cat this weekend.