On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:46 AM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote: > (List answer) > What problems did you have with recent motherboards? > I have generally had very little to no problems with recent stuff, > although it obviously depends on what technologies are being used. >
About half a year ago Geoffrey and Baruch Siach helped me install Kubuntu on a recent ASUS P8H61 MLX motherboard. There were problems with the NIC driver, and even after that was resolved DHCP would Not Work (tm). This was after about a week of troubleshooting, as the reported NIC was not the one for which the drivers were needed. > On my new laptop the installation was less fun but this was/is mainly > due to UEFI, the way it boots things (it wouldn't boot my bootable > disk-on-key, but simple bootable disk-on-keys worked [mine has > multiple OS'es/distros]). > I did not have UEFI issues, though I would of course like to avoid them as well. > The Intel H61 series chipset is certified to work with Ubuntu since > 11.10 as is the H77 obviously that does not cover the additional > components on the board but it's a start > > http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/catalog/make/Intel%20Corporation/?page=5 > Thanks, that is a start. The board at least has a PCI slot so I could add a cheap network card if need be. > I suspect that what will give and gave most problems recently is the > UEFI which changes the way we treat how our computer boots: > - You have to have a vfat boot partition of ~250MiB at the beginning > of the disk (mount at /boot/efi and _not_ at /boot, you can have a > separate /boot too though) > - The disk needs to use got and not a dos partiton table etc. > Basically a lot of our skills at booting a system have become obsolete... > Thank you for the information. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il