On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 05:08:18PM +1000, Nathan Norton wrote: > > Hi, > > I am having some difficulties installing centos 5.3 on the gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P motherboard. Not that it will help you any, but I"ve got Centos 5.3 on my Gigabyte MA770-UD3 board. Probably different enough that it's not a valid data point. I was looking at a different Gigabyte board. Not certain but it may have been the one you have, but couldn't find out if Linux--especially an older one like Centos--supported all the new chipsets on the board, so I backed off to one where I could find mention of other people running Linux on it. My guess is that you'll need a newer distro for that board. Keep in mind that Centos 5 was not leading edge when the upstream provider released it two years ago. It is intended to be stable, not bleeding edge. Good luck! > Has anyone got centos booting on this motherboard? > > so far I have tried the following. > > + disabled the jmicron controller as this caused errors on booting > JMB363 bad irq(0): will probe later error (this error caused the installation to stop at this point) > > + tested all components in another computer, they all work. > > + remove all unnecessary components from the pci bus. > > + power supply is not an issue since I have used a 850W PSU > > Basically what I am seeing is once the installation process starts and asks do i have another sata disk, and I select no the screen freezes at this point *every* single time, the screen is always blue with a couple of greek looking characters on the screen. No logs are left at this point in the installation, so it is making it difficult to diagnose. > > Today I installed the grml distribution and it worked with no issues, it uses a base kernel of 2.6.28. so there is nothing wrong with the hardware but centos still does not want to install on this motherboard. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Nathan > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 ----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge -----------------------------