Are there any software issues I may/should deal with when doing a full system upgrade? I’m going from AM4 to AM5, so new CPU, motherboard and RAM.
It should be pretty straightforward under Linux, right? Just swap my drives over and boot up? I’ve only ever done single upgrades at a time, never a full generation.
Generic distro kernel? You shouldn’t have any problems.
Hand-compiled kernel cooked up with -march=native? You’re sticking with AMD, so there should still be no issues unless some instruction got dropped between the old CPU and the new, which almost never happens. You might have to add a kernel module or two for things built into your mobo, nothing serious.
(Hell, I had a Windows 2000 install on a multi-boot system survive an upgrade like that, once upon a time. Just booted perfectly happily on the new hardware.)
I recently did an Intel to AMD switch and still using the same installation with same SSD. I just needed to reconfigure my network name because motherboard is changed though.
I moved my SSD from my old 8th gen Intel laptop to my brand new Zen 4 Framework 16. It was absolutely uneventful. Almost disappointing 😅
I compile my kernel with specific cpu optimizations, so i’ll just have to recompile a new image. Outside of that, everything is drop-in
No, unless you did stuff that would lead to you not asking this question.
