New Motherboard PM9MS

Michael Robinson pithypundit at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 15:57:20 UTC 2007


As far as I know Ubuntu will pick the changes up without any problems -
especially if the LiveCD boots fine.

The worst that could happen is it won't boot, and you'll have to boot with
the LiveCD to add a driver or two (unlikely).

On 6/1/07, Dave M <DaveM at mich.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to move my Ubuntu (v6.06) installation from one system
> (MS6368) to another (PM9MS). The PM9MS motherboard has a 3ghz P4, 1Gb
> memory and integrated I/O (Sound/Video/Disk/Ethernet/USB etc). It is based
> on the VIA chip set (VT6103 LAN, VT8237 South Bridge and PM800 North
> Bridge) and the ITE IT8705 Super-I/O chip.
>
> What is the easiest way to deal with configuring the drivers for a new
> motherboard? If I move the disks from one system to the other will Ubuntu
> detect the new hardware or do I have to do something to update the
> drivers?
>
> I ran the live CD and that seems to work so I think the hardware is
> supported. I would like to avoid having to re-install everything from
> scratch if I can.
>
> TIA
>
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