Hi.
Here I'm back with a very short report on installing
FreeBSD 6.3/7.0 and others on this mainboard:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2534&ProductName=GA-G33M-DS2R
It's a Gigabyte (model GA-G33M-DS2R) mainboard based on
the Intel G33 + ICH9R Chipset and Intel E8200 processor.
I tried to install FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0, xen 4.1 and CentOS 5.1
The results are all in favour of FreeBSD :)
FreeBSD:
It installs without any problem both using MB SATA fakeraid
or plain SATA disk. All HW is correctly recognized and in no
more than 5 minutes FreeBSD is fully installed, configured
and up and running on network. No tests on graphics, though.
xen:
Installation fails as it says the system doesn't have a NIC.
After providing the NIC driver during installation, linux
doesn't see the SATA fakeraid, but only the bare disks.
CentOS:
Installation gets to the end and lets a bootable system, but
the system doesn't recognice the NIC nor the SATA fakeraid.
Graphics is correctly configured and Gnome starts up correctly.
Best regards.
Roberto Nunnari wrote:
Roland,
Thank you for your support. I'll post here the result of
installing FreeBSD on that HW.
Best regards.
Robi.
Roland Smith wrote:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 06:45:40PM +0200, Roberto Nunnari wrote:
Hi!
Ok. So what about this?
http://de.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1178&l1=3&l2=11&l3=307
Has anybody been using it?
With what success?
Can anybody use the embedded RAID controller to make a HW RAID 1
with two SATA disks?
According to ata(4), the ICH8 chipset is supported. According to
ataraid(4) the jmicron is supported.
But if it doesn't work, you can always use gmirror(8).
Is the NIC supported and working well?
Hard to say. The spec page you provided doesn't list the type of Realtek
chip used. Again, if it doesn't work get a cheap Realtek 8139 card.
Again, I couldn't find any of its chipsets in the 6.3 supported
HW list, so that's why I ask the list.
It is better to check the manual pages of drivers.
But in this case I'm a bit muc more confident that FreeBSD 6.3
can run on this HW
I recently booted FreeBSD on a system with a intel motherboard with a
ICH9 chipset. Everything seemed to work OK.
Roland
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