Hello, Alan. On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 21:12:44 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > On these new mobos, it's important to update the BIOS as soon as > possible. I DL'd a Bios with my 'doze 7 machine first thing and flashed > it. The original bios I had was version 418 from February, the new one > was 520 from a few days before I started... It is very important this is > done before anything else is attempted with the system.
Thanks for the tip. The duff bios (from February, on my Asus X370-Pro MB) was exactly what my problem was. After finding the appropriate page on the Asus site (which Asus went out of their way to hide) and downloading and flashing the up to date BIOS, my PC started working. By working, I mean that I could use both RAM sticks without the BIOS program hanging, and the Gentoo minimal CD would actually boot. :-) Well, I had to prise a "standard" backing plate of the motherboard with a screwdriver, because some intelligent person had decided to glue it on. (By backing plate, I mean the metal plate which supports the weight of the processor cooler.) All in all, the MB I bought wasn't of merchantable quality. I hope it is, now. I've got 90% through a Gentoo installation on it, and I'm just considering how best to un-mdadm my boot partition (which I mistakenly turned into a RAID partition with its partner on the other drive). I can't erase the mdadm metadata stuff with mkfs.ext4 (even with the "force" parameter), and I don't think mdadm provides a method for undoing RAID. I can see myself having to use dd from /dev/zero to be able to get my partitions back again. Or can grub2 handle RAID partitions? This is the first time I've ever used grub2. But the installation kernel is 4.9.16. I've not noticed (yet) anything failing to work which I would expect to work. Once I've got my own kernel up and running, I'll start looking at 4.10.x. > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > >> He [Alan Grimes] has new hardware (Ryzen) that needs 4.10 for proper > >> support. > > I too have new hardware (An Asus Prime X370-PRO MB with a Ryzen 1700X > > processor), indeed so new that my first attempt to boot a minimal CD was > > less than an hour ago. > > > -- > Strange Game. > The only winning move is not to play. > Powers are not rights. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
