[GRLUG] Choice of MB - Trouble Installing

[Raymond McLaughlin]

rh90p at comcast.net wrote:
> What Motherboards do you run Linux on?  I have 3 ASUS machines
> that I have been unable to install any flavor of Linux on since
> SuSE 9.3.

Are you saying that you have tried and failed to install on all three
machines?

> People I know from work are saying that they have been
> unable to install on their machines also.  
> I have an ASUS A8V Deluxe 64bit dual core 3800+AMD w/ 3GB ram.  
> On that one Fedora 9 installer goes black screen just after I pick
> the keyboard type (in graphic mode). In ran the installer in text
> mode and got a kernel panic in about the same place.

Is the keyboard PS2 or USB?
How does this system behave if you boot a live run CD like Knoppix?

> I also have an ASUS CUV4X-DLS 32bit dual processor 1000 Intel 
> w750MB and an ASUS P3V4X 32bit 600 Intel w/ 512MB ram.  The 
> behavior varies but the result is that I can't install on anything
> I have using openSuSE 10.1 to 10.3, Fedora 8 to 9, Ubunto, etc.

By "on anything" do you mean on any of these three identical machines?


> I am no newbie.  I've been running Linux at home since Redhat 6.2
> (the first version that looked serious) and I was the Linux guru
> for an entire division of a large company.

This outbreak of uninstallability is indeed very curious!