On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, fred smith wrote:


did I really type "PAT"?? man, I gotta go back and read these things
before I send 'em out. I mean "PAE"!


pae is also in my flags list.
My F14 kernel is a PAE kernel.

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On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Michael Hennebry
<hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> I've got an Intel D865GBFL that I purchase from Daktech in March 2006.
> It still runs, but I'm stuck on F14.
> I haven't been able to get F16 to install or F17 to run right.
> It uses a pentium 4, so some think its ancient.

Might that is not the case here but I have the same motherboard and
F16 (and other distro with newer kernel) runs only with kernel
parameter processor.nocst=1 otherwise I got crash at initial ramdisk
loading. I do not really know why but that extra parameter helps. F17
runs fine here without that parameter.

Bye,
a
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Peter Gueckel <pgueckel@gmail.com> wrote:
> One other thing I should add to the considerations one ought to keep in mind when
> buying a motherboard is the quality of the BIOS program.
>
> With the ASUS and ASRock motherboards I have had, I noticed that the BIOS setup
> program was very difficult and ambiguous to understand. I got the impression that
> the settings were all poor translations and often left me puzzled.
>
> With the Intel motherboard, I was greeted by a menu composed of very professional
> and well-written settings and explanations. I find good and unambiguous use of
> English in the manuals and setup to be a factor worth considering.
>

As much as I hate my latest ASUS board, due to the lack of LAN drivers
in Linux and the lack of a PCI slot on the board, I must say that the
BIOS is terrific. When first opens it give one an idiot-designed
"simple BIOS" or whatnot, but once entered into the Advanced mode it
is terrific. I even updated the BIOS from within BIOS as it can read
USB sticks and upload the new firmware from there. So no DOS needed
for a BIOS update.

That said, I have another complaint about the latest ASUS boards: no
boot from USB!


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On 07/11/2012 12:35 AM, Gary Hodder wrote:

Am looking at the Gigabyte ga-990fxa-d3, does this board play well with
Linux as looking at putting it in what was the m4a79t box.


The software quality on current-generation Gigabyte and MSI motherboards
is much better than ASUS motherboard software. I wouldn't hesitate to
recommend Gigabyte, having tested several boards in the last few months.

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On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com> wrote:
> On 07/11/2012 12:35 AM, Gary Hodder wrote:
>>
>> Am looking at the Gigabyte ga-990fxa-d3, does this board play well with
>> Linux as looking at putting it in what was the m4a79t box.
>
>
> The software quality on current-generation Gigabyte and MSI motherboards is
> much better than ASUS motherboard software. I wouldn't hesitate to
> recommend Gigabyte, having tested several boards in the last few months.
> --

I have been using its sibling, GA-990FAX-UD5, for about 3-4 months now
and it runs great.
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