Re: [CentOS] motherboard for cents 6.3

[Johnny Hughes]

On 02/14/2013 09:28 AM, Jerry Geis 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".

I use the M5A99X EVO R2.0 board from ASUS ... I just built 2 machines
with it the other day and installed CentOS-6.3 on there.

I did not hook up sound, but network and sata work fine.  I also did not
use any of the hardware raid options, but there are 6 sata ports
(6GB/sec), 6 e-sata ports (6GB/sec), and USB 3.0 support.  It has AM3+
socket with support for a huge number of AMD CPUs from a single core
Sempron 100 series to the 8 core FX-8350.

The bios adjustments are amazing and there are several buttons on the
board itself if you get a bit too aggressive on the memory settings,
overclocking, etc.  This will do a self diagnostic and set things at
default for the Memory, CPU, and get you back to working settings.  You
can also flash the bios from a usb key while booted into the bios, so no
DOS booting to upgrade the firmware.

Needless to say ... I love these boards :)

They also seem to be very close to what you were already using
(M5A88-M), so any spare parts you have laying around should work (CPUs,
Memory, etc). 

It does NOT have built in Video though ... and it requires a pci-e 2.0
video card.  I had some GeForce cards on the shelf that would work.



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Re: [CentOS] motherboard for cents 6.3

[SilverTip257]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Jerry Geis  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.
>
>
Most hardware I work on has Broadcom or Intel chipsets.
Intel is the way to go if you're buying new.
(Well except for the EEPROM bug caused by some equipment manufacturers [4],
which isn't Intel's fault per se.)

Looks like fun:  [0] [1] [2] [3]

Driver that is included in vanilla Linux kernel is actually a driver for a
different network adapter, but works with 8111E too. Sort of works. Realtek
made new official driver that fixes the problem, but disables the old
driver. Which could be a problem for you if you have RTL8169/8110 and
RTL8168/8. [2]


[0]
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/no-network-detected-realtek-8111-8168-issue-615047/
[1] http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=80757
[2] http://www.twm-kd.com/linux/realtek-rtl81688111e-and-ubuntu-linux/
[3]
http://unixblogger.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/the-pain-of-an-realtek-rtl8111rtl8168-ethernet-card/
[4] http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death-update.html


> 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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Re: [CentOS] motherboard for cents 6.3

[b.j. mcclure]

Have built two workstations in last few months using Gigabyte
GA-880GA-UD3H motherboards.  One Rev. 2101, the other Rev. 3001.  Both
DVD installs of 6.3 w/o a hitch.  Using software Raid 10 on both with
four sata III drives.  Zero issues known.

HTH.

B.J.

CentOS release 6.3 (Final) 

On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 10:28 -0500, Jerry Geis 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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Re: [CentOS] motherboard for cents 6.3

[m . roth]

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Jerry Geis wrote:
>> Seems like overnight every motherboard that worked with linux has
>> DROPPED off the face of the earth.

> I'll tell you that it works on every hardware we've bought, including
> fairly new Dell 720's with a Tesla add-on card - standard CentOS 6.3.

Sorry, that's Intel. However, we've got some hot Penguin servers, with
Opteron 6274, 64-core, and they were supported out of the box on the
supermicro m/b Penguin builds with.

ON THE OTHER HAND, having dealt with them, there's *no* *way* I'd buy a
Supermicro board: their q/a,q/c is lousy.

   mark

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Re: [CentOS] motherboard for cents 6.3

[Weiner John]

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  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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Re: [CentOS] motherboard for cents 6.3

[m . roth]

Jerry Geis wrote:
> Seems like overnight every motherboard that worked with linux has
> DROPPED off the face of the earth.

First I've heard of this. What kind are you looking at, for a workstation
at home?
>
> Every motherboard I looked at is using the realtek 8111 chipset and a
> northbridge that is not supported.

The 8111 isn't new. Check


And I was under the impression northbridge is northbridge. Why, is it
something other than Ivy, Sandy, or whatever?
>
> 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.

You actually do want to do a pxeboot? Sounds to me like the issue here is
that the kickstart needs to load a driver for the NIC, and isn't doing so.

What does the messages screen say (f,um, 4? 6?)
>
> 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".

I'll tell you that it works on every hardware we've bought, including
fairly new Dell 720's with a Tesla add-on card - standard CentOS 6.3.

  mark

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[CentOS] motherboard for cents 6.3

[Jerry Geis]

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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