[CentOS] motherboard for cents 6.3

b.j. mcclure keepertoad at bellsouth.net
Thu Feb 14 17:03:10 UTC 2013


Have built two workstations in last few months using Gigabyte
GA-880GA-UD3H motherboards.  One Rev. 2101, the other Rev. 3001.  Both
DVD installs of 6.3 w/o a hitch.  Using software Raid 10 on both with
four sata III drives.  Zero issues known.

HTH.

B.J.

CentOS release 6.3 (Final) 

On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 10:28 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:

> Seems like overnight every motherboard that worked with linux has 
> DROPPED off
> the face of the earth.
> 
> Every motherboard I looked at is using the realtek 8111 chipset and a 
> northbridge
> that is not supported.
> 
> Example: GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3, does not work with linux
> I tried disabling the onboard NIC and using a PCI-E intel card I always use
> and that would not work either. The north or south bridge is messing 
> with the network card.
> The card asks for a PXE boot but after centos starts it can no longer 
> find kickstart files, network
> is messed up.
> 
> I was using Asus M5A88-M and they are no longer available.
> 
> Anyway - anyone have a suggestion for and AMD motherboard that works with
> linux be great if it has onboard video (gaming is not needed), onboard 
> network,
> SATA nothing super special just "working".
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jerry
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