I haven't had any issues getting a variety of distributions (currently running Gentoo, CentOS, Debian, and a Ubuntu box in oil) on a tons of different hardware from laptops and desktops and servers of quite a few brands.
Most desktops and servers are SuperMicro. I highly recommend them. However I doubt the hardware is the issue. Catherine Gramze <rhia...@gmail.com> wrote: >I intend to build a computer for the specific purpose of running >Debian. I have had a bad experience with a store-bought computer, which >seemed to be wholly unable to boot to anything but Windows 8 - there >was no option in the BIOS to boot to the hard drive, or even to the EFI >partition, but only to the Windows Boot Manager. Even with Secure Boot >turned off. > >So, I am looking for recommendations on hardware, particularly >motherboards, known to play nicely with Debian and boot consistently. >Building my own system is not new to me, but something I have not done >for 10 years or so, so the appropriate BIOS settings on the new EFI and >UEFI mobos are unknown to me. All advice is solicited.
