[CS-FSLUG] mini-ITX boot problem

[Jonathan E. Brickman]

Next thing I would try, is to boot Puppy Linux from CD.  This will tell 
fairly definitively whether that motherboard is standard enough for 
Linux, or whether it might be one of the proprietarized boards which 
often will crash anything, including the Windows installer.  Puppy 4.1.2 
is a 95M ISO, fairly quick and easy to download, burn, and boot from CD.

If it boots Puppy from CD, I would jump to something with broader 
support for newest hardware, probably Sabayon based on recent 
experiences.  I have had all sorts of troubles with RedHat (which is 
CentOS) not supporting non-vanilla hardware without extensive tweaking 
(which frankly, I refuse to waste my time doing).

But that motherboard might be a lot easier to run using a SATA CD-ROM.  
You could buy one and return it if it didn't help, if you can afford to 
do so.

J.E.B.

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