[DC LoCo] Kernel Panic!

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Thursday, February 03, 2011 01:26:17 pm Frank J. Gómez wrote:
> It turns out that both of my mirrors are on card-based array controllers
> (nothing on-board after all), so I should be able to move everything to a
> new machine fairly painlessly.  One question: should I pretty much just
> forget about the array that contains the OS?  The new machine will have
> totally new hardware (except for the array controllers and disks), and I'm
> wondering if that'll cause chaos for the operating system which is
> expecting the old environment.  I know in the days when I used WinXP, the
> system would go to hell for lack of appropriate drivers, etc -- will
> Ubuntu (server edition, if that matters) adjust to its new surroundings,
> or should I just start with a fresh OS?

Things most likely to freak out:
- graphics drivers
- sound settings
- architecture change (putting 64bit OS on 32bit hardware)

Only one of these is applicable on a server, and not on a new one.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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