Re: booting and NVME on older motherboards

2018-10-24 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/24/18 3:55 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 10/24/18 2:11 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Is copying the /boot and /boot/efi partitions to the sata drive and editing /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg to point the /dev/sda instead of /dev/nvme0n1 all that needs doing?  No hidden firmare on the boo

Re: booting and NVME on older motherboards

2018-10-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/24/18 2:11 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Is copying the /boot and /boot/efi partitions to the sata drive and editing /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg to point the /dev/sda instead of /dev/nvme0n1 all that needs doing? No hidden firmare on the bootable drive like in the bios days? Is there

booting and NVME on older motherboards

2018-10-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Has anyone gone through the exercise of setting up the boot environment for booting fedora on a system with an NVME drive where the motherboard UEFI code doesn't understand NVME disks? I did a clean install of fedora to the nvme and let anacondia do its thing. The only non-default item was using

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-22 Thread Tommy Pham
on current-generation Gigabyte and MSI motherboards is > much better than ASUS motherboard software. I wouldn't hesitate to > recommend Gigabyte, having tested several boards in the last few months. > -- I have been using its sibling, GA-990FAX-UD5, for about 3-4 months now and it

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/11/2012 12:35 AM, Gary Hodder wrote: Am looking at the Gigabyte ga-990fxa-d3, does this board play well with Linux as looking at putting it in what was the m4a79t box. The software quality on current-generation Gigabyte and MSI motherboards is much better than ASUS motherboard software

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote: > One other thing I should add to the considerations one ought to keep in mind > when > buying a motherboard is the quality of the BIOS program. > > With the ASUS and ASRock motherboards I have had, I noticed that the BIOS &g

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-13 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I've got an Intel D865GBFL that I purchase from Daktech in March 2006. > It still runs, but I'm stuck on F14. > I haven't been able to get F16 to install or F17 to run right. > It uses a pentium 4, so some think its ancient. Might that is

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, fred smith wrote: did I really type "PAT"?? man, I gotta go back and read these things before I send 'em out. I mean "PAE"! :( pae is also in my flags list. My F14 kernel is a PAE kernel. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my ki

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/12/2012 12:05 PM, Suvayu Ali issued this missive:: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 05:35:40PM +1000, Gary Hodder wrote: Am looking at the Gigabyte ga-990fxa-d3, does this board play well with Linux as looking at putting it in what was the m4a79t box. We're a big Linux shop here and we used Dell

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-13 Thread Mark Haney
On 07/11/2012 03:35 AM, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi all, I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? I had a Asus m4a79t delux but in corroded under 2 years and failed. Asus blames the customer oxidation and will not give warranty even though it has 3 years warranty. Am

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-13 Thread Peter Gueckel
rdirect first. Easy way to see how a board rates. > > Peter Gueckel wrote: > >> >>I have had 2 different Asus motherboards over the years, and I always had >>intermittent and difficult to assess problems. One other thing I should add to the considerations one ought to

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Gary Hodder wrote: > Hi all, > > I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? > I had a Asus m4a79t delux but in corroded under 2 years and failed. > Asus blames the customer oxidation and will not give warranty even &g

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 07:47:20PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Terry Polzin wrote: > > >On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 13:49 -0400, fred smith wrote: > >>On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:26:25PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > >>> > >>> I've got an Intel D865GBFL that I purchase from

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Terry Polzin wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 13:49 -0400, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:26:25PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I've got an Intel D865GBFL that I purchase from Daktech in March 2006. > It still runs, but I'm stuck on F14. > I haven't been ab

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread Kernel Guardian
I have owned tyan dual PIII (still working under freebsd); msi dual amd (working under CentOS), GA-EP35-UD3L (F17), GA-P55-US3L. The Only problems what i had were related to drivers for rtl 811x.x chipsets under centos. Asus laptops have problems with standby mode. But with little hacking can work

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 05:35:40PM +1000, Gary Hodder wrote: > > Am looking at the Gigabyte ga-990fxa-d3, does this board play well with > Linux as looking at putting it in what was the m4a79t box. > I have owned a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P since Jan 2009; it has never broken down, neither has it ev

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread Terry Polzin
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 13:49 -0400, fred smith wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:26:25PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > > I've got an Intel D865GBFL that I purchase from Daktech in March 2006. > > It still runs, but I'm stuck on F14. > > I haven't been able to get F16 to install or F17 to r

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:26:25PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I've got an Intel D865GBFL that I purchase from Daktech in March 2006. > It still runs, but I'm stuck on F14. > I haven't been able to get F16 to install or F17 to run right. > It uses a pentium 4, so some think its ancient. in

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
I've got an Intel D865GBFL that I purchase from Daktech in March 2006. It still runs, but I'm stuck on F14. I haven't been able to get F16 to install or F17 to run right. It uses a pentium 4, so some think its ancient. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tel

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I
that damages boards in transit. Or different generations of motherboards having particular problems: I saw several Asus motherboards (I think they were from the A8N family), bought at different times from different suppliers, where the chipset fan died after a year or two. If you bought a motherboard

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread James Wilkinson
it. Or different generations of motherboards having particular problems: I saw several Asus motherboards (I think they were from the A8N family), bought at different times from different suppliers, where the chipset fan died after a year or two. If you bought a motherboard where the chipset didn’t need a

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 13:19 -0400, Tom Wroblewski wrote: > I use ASUS mobo's all my builds for years without one problem, then > again I may be the lucky one. With the comments of I have no problems with them, versus I've nothing but problems with them, I wonder whether this is due to different

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 07/11/2012 03:35 AM, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi all, I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? I had a Asus m4a79t delux but in corroded under 2 years and failed. Asus blames the customer oxidation and will not give warranty even though it has 3 years warranty. Strange

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Gary Hodder wrote: > will not give money back as they say they do not support Linux. > So we have proved that this brand is crap, what else is there? The only companies that officially support Linux are server hardware manufacturers. IE: Dell, HP, SuperMicro, etc. If you want such a motherboard y

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Tom Wroblewski
rates. Peter Gueckel wrote: >Gary Hodder wrote: > >> I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? > >I have had 2 different Asus motherboards over the years, and I always had >intermittent >and difficult to assess problems. Sometimes, I would bo

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Peter Gueckel
Gary Hodder wrote: > I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? I have had 2 different Asus motherboards over the years, and I always had intermittent and difficult to assess problems. Sometimes, I would boot and my hard drives would not be there. A few tries

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 11/07/12 08:34, Roger types: On 11/07/12 20:56, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 11.07.2012, Gary Hodder wrote: I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? I have had good experiences with Gigabyte mainboards the last 5 years, both with regards to Linux compatibility and

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 11 July 2012 08:35, Gary Hodder wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? > > I had a Asus m4a79t delux but in corroded under 2 years and failed. > > A

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 July 2012 08:35, Gary Hodder wrote: > Hi all, > > I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? > I had a Asus m4a79t delux but in corroded under 2 years and failed. > Asus blames the customer oxidation and will not give warranty even > though it ha

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Roger
On 11/07/12 20:56, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 11.07.2012, Gary Hodder wrote: I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? I have had good experiences with Gigabyte mainboards the last 5 years, both with regards to Linux compatibility and quality. Me too. Roger -- users

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.07.2012, Gary Hodder wrote: > I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? I have had good experiences with Gigabyte mainboards the last 5 years, both with regards to Linux compatibility and quality. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 11.07.2012 09:35, Gary Hodder wrote: > Hi all, > > I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? > > Am looking at the Gigabyte ga-990fxa-d3, does this board play well with > Linux as looking at putting it in what was the m4a79t box. I don't quite

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I
On 07/11/2012 03:35 AM, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi all, I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? I had a Asus m4a79t delux but in corroded under 2 years and failed. Asus blames the customer oxidation and will not give warranty even though it has 3 years warranty. Strange

Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi all, I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? I had a Asus m4a79t delux but in corroded under 2 years and failed. Asus blames the customer oxidation and will not give warranty even though it has 3 years warranty. Strange how a old p5 Intel machine beside it is