Switching Motherboards Affect Ubuntu?

[MyLeftNut]

Would a switch in motherboards affect Ubuntu (8.04) like it would with Windows? I recently changed motherboards and it messed up my windows install with stability issues and all. How versatile is Ubuntu with hardware changes?

 

[Nothinman]

It should be fine, hardware is detected and the right drivers loaded automatically at every bootup. The only major issue would be the hard disks depending on how your /etc/fstab is setup, but if you're using labels, UUIDs or LVM you'll be fine there too.

 

[PCTC2]

I recently took a Ubuntu 7.10 install out of an old P3 and shoved it into an old P4 cuz the P3 bit the dust and it was fine except for needing to change fstab, menu.lst (grub.conf), and an incompatible nVIDIA driver. Booted fine.

 

[sourceninja]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
It should be fine, hardware is detected and the right drivers loaded automatically at every bootup. The only major issue would be the hard disks depending on how your /etc/fstab is setup, but if you're using labels, UUIDs or LVM you'll be fine there too.

The last two versions of ubuntu have used UUID's by default. So he should be fine there.