[CentOS] Centos-compatible motherboards

[Fred Smith]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 01:41:49PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:44:02PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On 12/27/2013 07:11 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 03:40:43AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > >> On 12/25/2013 09:51 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > >>> Hi all!
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm toying with the idea of spending some Christmas money on a new MB and
> > >>> CPU to upgrade my desktop.
> <snip>
> > >> I personally have recently built 2 different systems with with the Asus
> > >> M5A99X Evo R2.0 motherboard.  This one does not have a graphics card ...
> > >> everything does work with CentOS-6.5 and RHEL7B1.
> > >>
> > >> It uses AMD CPUs and I have used several AM3+ CPUs, including Sempron
> > >> 100, FX-6150, and FX-8150.
> > >>
> > >> https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A99X_EVO_R20/

Oh, one more question:
sensors_detect doesn't find any sensors for lm_sensors to work with.
Are you using (or do you know of) any other tools to monitor board temps
(etc) ??

> > >>
> > >> One of the nicest features is it will detect and set a working BIOS
> > >> memory timing with a press of a button on the board ... if you try
> > >> something manually that is incompatible, a simple press of the button
> > >> and reboot will get you back to a working config.
> 
> > > Johnny:
> > >
> > > I assume it has UEFI and "secure boot"? did you disable the secure boot
> > > feature before installing? (AFAIK Centos doesn't yet support UEFI/secure
> > > boot????)
> > >
> > > I have an existing pair of drives holding Centos in a software Raid-1
> > > configuration, and I'm assuming I can simply move them to the new
> > > board, boot and be off to the races. Can you comment on that assumption?
> > 
> > The software raid-1 should work fine ... plenty of room for drives on
> > that board.  As long as you have a normal file system on sata dirves, it
> > should boot.  You may need to reconfigure the hardware (obviously,
> > different network cards, audio, video, etc.)
> > 
> > The version of the BIOS that I currently have does have a secure boot
> > turn off feature. (1302 x64 is my BIOS version) Looks like there are 5
> > newer versions of the BIOS than the one I have installed now.
> 
> Ok, so I bought the board and a FX6300 CPU to go with it. pulled the 
> swap-eroo and after some trepidation (trying to make sure I had everything
> plugged in correctly, so I wouldn't let the magic smoke leak out) fired 
> it up, tweaked a bunch of BIOS settings, then did a real boot and up it 
> came! found the Raid-1 pair, found everything and seems to be "just working".
> 
> Only problem was networking. the network config specified the MAC address,
> so it didn't find that port (obviously, since it isn't there anymore)
> and it then manufactured an eth1 (as if from whole cloth), which got an
> address from DHCP and networking is up. but since I run a mail server on
> that box, it needs its static IP address so the forwarded port 25 will
> work. to fix this had to work thru 2 or 3 issues but after head-banging
> for a couple hours got it all straightened out.
> 
> thanks for the hints on what seems a good board!
> 
> My Folding At Home client seems to be screaming right along, too!
> 
> Fred
> 
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