Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:17:57 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is it necessary to reinstall OS upon motherboard change? Message-ID: <20160830211757.7de1896d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB0974ABE8A5C1472F61965571F6E00@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB0974ABE8A5C1472F61965571F6E00@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:10:55 +0000, Manish Jain wrote: > Because of certain problems I am experiencing with my hardware, I am > planning to move to another motherboard + CPU. Just out of curiosity, I > wished to enquire - is it possible to use an existing FreeBSD > installation despite change of MB + CPU ? Yes. A re-install is recommended (but not exactly _required_) when moving from a 32 bit platform to a 64 bit platform on x86. A total re-install is only needed when changing achitectures (for example if you move from i386 to sparc). > In the Windows world, that is > pretty much impossible, but on FreeBSD the possibilities don't appear > that bad to me. In "Windows" land you also have to consider if you are _allowed_ to re-install on different hardware... ;-) > (My hard disk and graphics card will remain unaltered). If you are on amd64, and the new CPU is amd64 as well, no need to reinstall. In fact, I have a special FreeBSD HDD which I have already booted on more than 10 totally different systems. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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