Ricardo Santos Campos wrote:
At the moment I have a Debian installation on a disk that is going to be moved onto a new motherboard, which has an entirely new chipset. This chipset is supported in 2.4.20, but not in 2.4.18 which is what I am running currently.
Which chipsets exactly? what will not be supported? Unless there is some major problem that will prevent the old kernel from running or you need some specific support then the kernel should boot and just use generic drivers etc. You should at least be able to get to a prompt and recompile your kernel from there.
Adam