Is it necessary to reinstall OS upon motherboard change?

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2016, Bertram Scharpf wrote:

> On Tuesday, 30. Aug 2016, 21:17:57 +0200, Polytropon wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:10:55 +0000, Manish Jain wrote:
>>> (My hard disk and graphics card will remain unaltered).
>>
>> [...] In fact, I have a special FreeBSD HDD which I have
>> already booted on more than 10 totally different systems. :-)
>
> Isn't this exactly what live CDs and USBs do?

Yes.  In fact, setting up labels for the partitions and using

   ifconfig_DEFAULT="SYNCDHCP"

can make a system pretty portable.