[CentOS] motherboard for cents 6.3

Thu Feb 14 15:35:04 UTC 2013
Weiner John <johweiner at gmail.com>

Sorry to hear about the ASUS because that is what we have too.

Another board that works on our Linux cluster is  TYAN S4980G2NR Thunder n3600QE 

There are a series of Tyan boards that are based on AMD architecture.  Last time I looked there were still on the face of the earth.

John

   
On Feb 14, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> 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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