[CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here

On Tuesday 03 June 2008 16:04:54 Scott Silva wrote:
> on 6-3-2008 2:22 AM Peter Arremann spake the following:
> > On Tuesday 03 June 2008 02:07:12 am Christopher Chan wrote:
> >> Victor Padro wrote:
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> I just been wasting time with an Asus mobo trying to get CentOS/RHEL up
> >>> and running for my home lab using Xen Technologies and need an advice
> >>> in order to have a fully working Box, got any suggestions?
> >>
> >> Use acpi=off or noapic to deal with broken Asus bioses.
> >>
> >> Next time, buy MSI or A-bit.
> >
> > Doesn't MSI require you to have windows for bios updates?
> >
> > Peter.
>
> Most boards I have had usually had a floppy image available on the website
> for bioses. Only live update is the windows only software.

Or you can sometimes boot with the m/board driver disk to flash the bios, 
putting the new bios file on a floppy or USB pendrive..
john

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