Moving to a new computer

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> on Wed, 14 Aug 2019
22:05:47 +0100

> On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 21:29, Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:
> >
> > I need to move Ubuntu to another computer.  Both computers use Intel chip sets.
> > What I want to do is just move the hard drive from one to the other.  I know
> > that all the devices will not be the same so what I want to know is how to
> > update the Ubuntu configuration on the new computer so it recognizes all the
> > devices.
> 
> If you are using the intel graphics, and assuming they are both 64 bit
> processors, then there is a good probability it will just go.  Try it
> and see, obviously you have already backed up all important data.
> However you might have trouble getting it to boot with UEFI if the new
> one uses that instead of a BIOS.

Moving the hard drive to the new system worked well.

The display only came up in single display mode.  That was easy to fix.  Do not
understand why that setting changed.

VirtualBox would not start because of security issues.  I searched and found a
few messages on how to sign the VirtualBox modules but none of those worked. 
So I have disabled boot security which allows VirtualBox to execute, I do not
remember how that was set on the old computer but my guess would be disabled.

-- 
Robert Blair


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