VIA EX15000G

[Jonas Lund]

I have an EN12000eg machine, running 6.2 on it. At the start however i
had some crappy fake-raid card installed. If any disks were attached
to it the boot would just hang. (Don't remember exactly but i think it
died already in the bootloader)

I think i have turned off the SW raid built into the board. no memory
as to if that affected the machine however.

A small note also, check that the bios reports the same amount of
memory that you have installed. If it's halved then there's a bug in
the chipsets that made atleast my board to use half the memory if the
stick had chips with 128MB on it. If you can get a stick with 64MB
chips it'll work. See www.mini-itx.com for a hopefully better
description :)

I'm quite happy with it now. using gmirror, 2x 3.5" disks and a silent
machine that only uses 49 watts.

/ Jonas Lund

2008/5/19, Walter C. Pelissero <walter at pelissero.de>:
> Has anyone tried this motherboard?
>
>  With 7.0 boot-only disk, I haven't been able to get as far sa
>  "Mounting root filesystem".  In fact it stops just before (after
>  probing acd0).
>
>  As a matter of fact this board doesn't seem to boot FreeBSD 6.3
>  either, nor 5.4.  (Even an old Gentoo 1.4 gets stuck pretty soon in
>  the boot process.)  So I thought there might be some BIOS trick I
>  should try before ditching the board.
>
>  Any help is welcome.
>
>
>  --
>  walter pelissero
>  http://www.pelissero.de
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