Bob Hoffman wrote: <snip> > very frustrating. Just sitting here with my useless brick of a computer > unable to deploy it. > Gonna call supermicro today and ask about the es1000. > Also will try to install xorg to get to the xorg.conf and see if that can > help, however most errors are deeper in the boot than xorg. Stil more pain, esp. since they decided to drop system-config-display, which would always get you at least a minimal working video. May I strongly recommend yesterday's XKCD <http://xkcd.com/963/>? Talk about timely.... <snip> mark