My motherboard expectantly died. I am in the process of replacing the mother board and the graphics card. Is it a reasonable expectation the system will boot using the same boot disk or will I need to re-build U-M from scratch?
Hi jaybo
Boot, recognize the difference and auto make corrections. That’s the way its set up to work. Could be some bumps in the road. The new graphics card will probably cause your system to boot using a generic driver so check for driver options.
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Unlike Windows, I’ve found Linux to adapt very well in new bodies of hardware, so you should be good to go with your existing installation.
If you previously had a proprietary graphics driver installed, this might be the only hiccup, unless it’s the same brand (e.g. NVIDIA). Open source drivers shouldn’t cause much of a problem.
I was using open source drivers. I will report back later.
I received my new motherboard an graphics card. System booted up as if there was no change.
Sounds good 
Curious, what’s your new system specs?
In terminal:
inxi -bSystem: Kernel: 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop: MATE 1.12.1 Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx
Bios: American Megatrends v: 2701 date: 03/24/2016
CPU: Octa core AMD FX-8320E Eight-Core (-MCP-) speed/max: 1400/3200 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA Device 128b
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: [email protected]
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV106 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169
Drives: HDD Total Size: 3860.8GB (0.5% used)
Info: Processes: 227 Uptime: 9 min Memory: 904.2/15949.5MB
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35
Wow, you didn’t mess around
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So you calling this solved?
I don’t know now. Today I had the system hang a couple of times when opening Firefox. Looking at the logs I see:
Dec 20 16:05:37 J kernel: [18025.584906] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: firefox[5064]: failed to idle channel 5 [firefox[5064]]
Dec 20 16:05:52 J kernel: [18040.585157] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: firefox[5064]: failed to idle channel 5 [firefox[5064]]You are slightly out of date. There is a kernel upgrade to 4.4.0-57; so I would do a update and see if it helps any.
sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
Reboot required to update the kernel.
You could also try a restricted driver. For me (geForce) restricted drivers have worked for several years.
Just my thoughts. I do not have any other suggestions at present.
Software updater installed 4.4.0-57 this morning. Running “sudo apt update” indicated there is nothing to updated. My kernel is now 4.4.0-57. If problems continue, I will consider restricted drivers. Thanks.
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Update: Switched to proprietary nvidia drivers, no issues. After a couple of weeks switched back to nouveau and no issues for a week now.
Update: Spoke too soon. Hanging when using Firefox has returned. I am back to NVIDIA drivers
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