Blah101 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I was considering the option of upgrading my motherboard and cpu to a new socket (I have a LGA 775 currently). Would to do a fresh install of Lion? Or would there be a way to keep my current install while just editing a few things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moto7451 Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 When I copied my 10.6 install from my Core 2 Duo to my Core i7 Laptop I just removed cloned the drive and removed the unnecessary (for the i7 machine) kexts and added the appropriate ones for it. OS X is very good about being flexible with the installed hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Yep, OS X doesn't "lock" itself to the hardware it's installed on but before attempting to boot your installation on your new hardware I guess it could be a good idea to flush the system caches. On Lion, you can do this by deleting the contents of /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup. Note that if you have any software installed that uses your Hardware UUID (see System Profiler, Hardware) for registration purposes, serial number generation etc, it will no longer work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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