Completey new system, well accept the HDD.

You don't need to reinstall.

You may or may not have to recompile your kernel depending on your distribution and what hardware drivers it already ships with.
 
I recently swapped motherboards which included different graphics\audio\lan chipset and Ubuntu didn't miss a heartbeat. Everything worked immediately.
 
yep, emmm gentoo or no gentoo, no need to recompile unless you want to take advantage of some experimental thing available to your new build!
 
inSilica said:
yep, emmm gentoo or no gentoo, no need to recompile unless you want to take advantage of some experimental thing available to your new build!
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An full on gentoo user may compile a minimal kernel with the device drivers for their hardware only and hardware detection on boot disabled, this user would need to make a new kernel.
 
Providing your graphics card is the same vendor shouldnt see too many issues. Thats where you usually see the most obvious issues (lack of X for example :)).
 
Yea, the only thing that should kill you is config files.

If you edited any /etc/X11/xorg.conf file or any /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/* files or the driver edited them, you may well be unable to start X (leaves you at console), all the drivers have a way to generate an X config now, so thats an east fix.

If you don't have an /etc/fstab based on UUID then the new board may present drives in a different order, so /dev/sda might be /dev/sdb now. This would be a boot failure, but single user mode should still work so you can mend it. Or use a live CD.
 
BigglesPiP said:
Yea, the only thing that should kill you is config files.

If you edited any /etc/X11/xorg.conf file or any /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/* files or the driver edited them, you may well be unable to start X (leaves you at console), all the drivers have a way to generate an X config now, so thats an east fix.

If you don't have an /etc/fstab based on UUID then the new board may present drives in a different order, so /dev/sda might be /dev/sdb now. This would be a boot failure, but single user mode should still work so you can mend it. Or use a live CD.
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So no editing required, how do I find out about the UUID thing?

Where is xorg?

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Post contents of..

/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/etc/fstab

..although I'm 99% sure that mint (like ubuntu) uses UUID's so there should be no issue with the fstab.

What graphics chipset are you going from and to and have you installed any additional graphics drivers?
 
masterluke said:
Post contents of..

/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/etc/fstab

..although I'm 99% sure that mint (like ubuntu) uses UUID's so there should be no issue with the fstab.

What graphics chipset are you going from and to and have you installed any additional graphics drivers?
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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS to NVIDIA GeForce GT440, unless Mint did it on its own at install, no drivers are installed.

fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=f733b732-d7d7-410c-ad19-df2c18a4fa81 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=0e05a4c1-e898-422e-9e02-6dae7eb78e7c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

I posted a pick in the above post, no xorg.conf file.
 
The lack of an xorg.conf file is a good thing. Means the new graphics set-up won't use settings for the old one.

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And your fstab is assigned by UUID, should boot to the GUI fine.
 
BigglesPiP said:
The lack of an xorg.conf file is a good thing. Means the new graphics set-up won't use settings for the old one.

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And your fstab is assigned by UUID, should boot to the GUI fine.
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Awesome, wish Windows was that easy. Can I just go to safe mode, delete the motherboard before I put the hdd in the new system. yes, I need windows for those blasted games. :( plus it looks like they royally screwed up windows 8 as far as compatibility & the UI stinks also.. Oh well why spend $200ish more on a OS anyway.
 
I guess you will probably already have the Nvidia binary driver installed but it doesnt matter since you're going Nvidia->Nvidia. Plus as above it will pick up your drives and boot fine.

EDIT - I would be VERY surprised if going into safe mode and deleting stuff in windows will allow you to boot on your new system.
 
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