[CentOS] motherboard for cents 6.3

Thu Feb 14 20:39:18 UTC 2013
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 02/14/2013 09:28 AM, 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".

I use the M5A99X EVO R2.0 board from ASUS ... I just built 2 machines
with it the other day and installed CentOS-6.3 on there.

I did not hook up sound, but network and sata work fine.  I also did not
use any of the hardware raid options, but there are 6 sata ports
(6GB/sec), 6 e-sata ports (6GB/sec), and USB 3.0 support.  It has AM3+
socket with support for a huge number of AMD CPUs from a single core
Sempron 100 series to the 8 core FX-8350.

The bios adjustments are amazing and there are several buttons on the
board itself if you get a bit too aggressive on the memory settings,
overclocking, etc.  This will do a self diagnostic and set things at
default for the Memory, CPU, and get you back to working settings.  You
can also flash the bios from a usb key while booted into the bios, so no
DOS booting to upgrade the firmware.

Needless to say ... I love these boards :)

They also seem to be very close to what you were already using
(M5A88-M), so any spare parts you have laying around should work (CPUs,
Memory, etc). 

It does NOT have built in Video though ... and it requires a pci-e 2.0
video card.  I had some GeForce cards on the shelf that would work.

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