[CentOS] Moving hard drives

Slack-Moehrle wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a server that is running nicely, except I have hit the maximum RAM (4gb) and I wish to add more.
>
> It is an ASUS board, AMD X64 dual core, nvidia nic.
>
> What I want going to move to is a dell board, Intel Pentium M dual code, which supports 8gb of RAM.
>   

Pentium-M was a single core laptop chip about 4 years ago, that predated 
the Core family of CPUs...    The current "Pentium" dual core chips are 
low end Celeron-style chips based on Core2Duo chips with smaller caches 
and disabled features..

Some potential places you get into trouble moving linux...

    1) old architecture was x86_64, new CPU isn't.

    2) old board and new board require different device names for the 
disk systems, so /etc/fstab has to be editted

    3) new board requires different IO drivers in /boot/initrd-*.img