From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 30 20:29:18 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0DA0BC72F1 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:29:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ultima1252@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-x236.google.com (mail-yw0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c05::236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8EC1D94 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:29:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ultima1252@gmail.com) Received: by mail-yw0-x236.google.com with SMTP id r9so18698845ywg.0 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:29:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=8s1ri3nQvwjM4ApSu3/lFmlfTtA0EtFgAe05s69lykw=; b=wT5N+9OIRGgBrtqqim/RZU1CNJkg0DrlKzezc2tUqIj8NAhVkf9jeYIqDBjTMMCyuG lMHka+H0+RD1svOw0sfl2FD+pWXHKgfhYaRJmiyj0ROfLVo0/hS9O8WIns/0kLcQp+h5 kt0N2kq3NXsAjQKvxu0+iiGBxXbNz3q8F3UIamG6unkTwdrHsA06cHuVjE+TB5FnWIxF +HM7zD6mG409yHgyUK2CzDGT2O5a68JnwYoxXYoT+WCFn9Wqt/Bc108rWHMdQkXLzrb0 OBWchx83+46iD3alxI+I84KEoOy5mGODZFRQnPZecPxuzeOEN0Nv2VSrSswfaSVBIZdY I10w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=8s1ri3nQvwjM4ApSu3/lFmlfTtA0EtFgAe05s69lykw=; b=PB/zduEwPhlMf8V2UGVYdv3YLQMBt7ulqUOnmxJIgN4aUom56NMjOm90H3DCxvLkjt 3oMc5FbrzgscloQyQNz0bMtRPN+fpfzZWeB/2UlvDuMR5vl8vLCMZLlFvshkXaKJi6ZO wa4YswFvTWCsZlmpdsuB5rI0UAJfWh3D7d3KGcPX5nVoNtrpb2n5KjG0iQjxgMtSfAdx tOvHO7XPpqMwMmxTeAeRFuhIRyly+yik3kGn/U7zqo/SHYiTcwgEF2LKpfV5Vko4Z5Tk XHxqq50KTfWYeYoYMtreOuRLtp4yzOEbGhd3LTMJbY3+1htHVsCIWnjw7KN7I9o4Dwx/ ZiKQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwOMgDZUZWzjkqyTzPMXvDChh9UwwV+fTaF5pRyNiIXXLjR/pGBP5rL5RzF/DvVvPdguCwralXOnlRr+cg== X-Received: by 10.129.129.134 with SMTP id r128mr5069496ywf.179.1472588957860; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:29:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.129.51.150 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:29:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160830211757.7de1896d.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20160830211757.7de1896d.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Ultima Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:29:17 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Is it necessary to reinstall OS upon motherboard change? To: Polytropon Cc: Manish Jain , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:29:18 -0000 On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Polytropon wrote: > 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, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >