Hi all, I just bought a new motherboard and I’ll be buying a new CPU, too. The current one is a gigabyte 520i AC AM4 with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G on it currently. The new one is also gigabyte 550M AM4 and the new processor is Ryzen 7 5800xt. I currently dual boot Cachy OS and windows 11. Each has their own boot partition and I use grub. I’m going to bring everything over from the old mobo except the cpu that will stay on it since it’s going into another pc. Meaning, I’m bringing my SSDs and all that. Will I need to reinstall (please say no lol)? Will it be just plug and play or will I need to fiddle with a live environment to chroot?
Please let me know if you need more info. Thank you in advance.

  • jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev
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    44 minutes ago

    For your linux partition you’d probably just need to install new drivers. I’ve popped my boot drive into a bunch of different pcs with no issue.

    Your windows partition might be weird, last i heard it assigns the activation to the motherboard serial number or something so you might have to redo the crack or provide your activation code again

  • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
    7·
    2 hours ago

    In general it shouldn’t. You might need to install some new drivers for the new chipset but in itself the system should work. Especially since nowadays kernels are shipped with a lot of stuff and I’m guessing you’re not compiling yours
    Regarding messing up with live environment, I don’t remember if GPT is enough for UEFI to load your bootloader or maybe you might need to install something in there

  • aarch0x40@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Reinstall shouldn’t be required but you’ll likely need to build a new initrd to ensure the boot process has the right drivers.

    • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Ok, that sounds a bit better. I’ll need to learn the building of initrd. Off to searching. Thank you.

  • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    On second thought, try to find out which driver your new network card needs and install it before the switch. As long as you have command line and network (USB drivers for keyboard should not be an issue) you can install whatever is missing

    Btw, there are two command line browsers that I know of: links and lynx. Copying commands from phone gets tedious fast