From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On 6/2/2024 5:00 PM, Philo wrote:   
   > I find Linux great for using on older machines that my friends give me when   
   they upgrade. For the most part I've been using Ubuntu and anytime I put the   
   drive in a different machine, it simply boots up and reconfigures with no   
   problems.   
   >   
   > The other day I tried to transplant a Mint 20.3 HD into different hardware   
   an the system just plain would not boot. I tried six different machines before   
   I gave up.   
      
   Did you hold down the Shift key and try and bring up the boot menu that way ?   
      
   You need to see some boot messages, even get a GRUB> prompt, to get   
   some clue as to what is going wrong.   
      
   If you can't see anything, maybe the monitor isn't happy with what   
   the PC is feeding it. My monitor, the HDMI doesn't work worth a darn,   
   and I use the VGA input instead (HDMI to VGA adapter or whatever).   
      
   *******   
      
   The Linux 21.2 disk I have handy, has NVidia 535.xx installed for   
   the GTX1080, and I moved the disk drive over from an Intel 4930K to an   
   AMD Zen3 with built-in AMD graphics (Vega7), and it booted up and   
   "AMDGPU,ATI" is being used for a driver. It does seem to be flexible   
   enough to probe the graphics properly. The boot was done from the   
   popup boot menu on the machine (both machines have popup boot,   
   the menu items are CSM entries for boot, the legacy BIOS format).   
      
   When I plugged a 7900GT into the system, and move the graphics over   
   there, the CPU fan went to 100%. Best guess is, the video card BIOS   
   does not have or use a GOP module. And the UEFI BIOS on the machine   
   expects a GOP BIOS module. The NVidia 1050/1080 cards I have, are ready for   
   that.   
   But the poor old 7900GT is just too old for the experiment, even though   
   it was going to be my candidate to see the NVidia 535.xx file fail to   
   configure that card.   
      
      Paul   
      
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