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manny15
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 Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 8:45 pm Post subject: Moving Gentoo to a new PC |
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I currently have a Pentium II and considering a Celeron 1.7Ghz (hopefully a Pentium 4). I would like to move my hard drive to the new PC but I won'tder if the system will boot since it's "optimized" for Pentium II. My kernel is compiled with Pentium II support and here's part of my /etc/make.conf
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CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe"
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Even though the Celeron would be "newer" that my P II, I though the Celeron and Pentium architectures were quite different and may cause a problem. Any ideas? |
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alec
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Your userland programs shouldn't be a problem - if something is compiled for i586 it will almost always run on an i686. You'll want to recompile everything, but it will run.
Before you switch, change your kernel to be consistent with the new processor under 'Processor Type and Features'. |
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