Hi everyone, I am planning on building a new PC. The only things I’m planning on transferring from my old build are my hard drives. Will I have any problem putting my OS drive with Linux mint right into a whole new PC? My other question is if I use my current Linux OS drive do I have to remove the old GPU and CPU drivers? I’m sticking with an nvidia card but I will be switching from Intel to AMD. I know in Windows you have to use software to fully remove GPU drivers before using a new one.
I’d expect it to work maybe 80% chance.
I feel ike I’ve had issues with grub doing that type of swap- I can’t remember the specifics, maybe hd0,x became swapped with hd1,x Or maybe i did something daft like futz with the partitions.
(assuming mint does use grub) maybe be prepared with either a grub shell cheatsheet, or just a live usb to chroot from so you can reconfigure grub.
Or just try swapping the ports over.
Only other issues I’ve had is maybe going non-uefi to uefi, and with things like “secure boot”. You can just trial and error the few combinations if you dont know.
Maybe note down any current mobo bios settings especially re: disks and boot.
edit - i fogot cpu microcode is vendor specific - you might need to swap that or at least remove the old microcode before swapping it could be irrelevant https://wiki.debian.org/Microcode