Move opensuse 12.1 installation to GA-X79-UD3 (UEFI) mb.

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#1

Hi,

I’ve got openSuSE 12.1 x86_64 running happily on a Gigabyte EP43-S3L mb. I am thinking of upgrading to a GA-X79-UD3.
Currently the system boots from a 500GB MBR hd, and has also a raid 5 (3x2TB hd), also MBR disks.

If I just move the disks to the new mb, will the system boot from the old disk? I don’t care about moving to UEFI mode (yet), however, if I add a 3TB hd later (not as a boot device, just for data), do I have to use UEFI mode?

Thanks in advance,

Yianni.

#2

On 2012-04-27 09:36, yianniv wrote:

> If I just move the disks to the new mb, will the system boot from the
> old disk?

If the bios order keeps, usually yes. You may have to do changes to graphic
config, sound, network…

> I don’t care about moving to UEFI mode (yet), however, if I
> add a 3TB hd later (not as a boot device, just for data), do I have to
> use UEFI mode?

I think not.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

#3

No, but you have to format the 3TB HDD with GPT.