{"id":917,"date":"2010-10-30T17:02:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/?p=917"},"modified":"2012-08-14T18:11:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T23:11:14","slug":"what-can-you-do-with-a8m2n-la-nodusm-gl8e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/what-can-you-do-with-a8m2n-la-nodusm-gl8e\/","title":{"rendered":"What can you do with A8M2N-LA \/ NodusM-GL8E?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, I decided to turn my HP m7557c computer (motherboard: A8M2N-LA<\/strong> \/ NodusM-GL8E<\/strong>) to an Unix server. The nightmare began. After trying nearly 10 different operating systems and distributions, I found that only very few of them worked with A8M2N-LA<\/strong> \/ NodusM-GL8E<\/strong>. I think it is worth to share my experience with this beast – an experiment result that took more than 100 hours.<\/p>\n

\r\nI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.\r\n-- Thomas A. Edison\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nThe following operating system are listed in alphabetically:\n<\/div>\n
Fedora 13<\/strong>
\nStatus<\/strong>: No
\nComment<\/strong>: Installation went well, but the system was very unstable due to kernel panic. This mother board may not compatible with the newer Linux kernel.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
FreeBSD 7.3<\/strong>
\nStatus<\/strong>: No
\nComment<\/strong>: Does not support USB keyword, i.e., can’t start the installation.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
FreeBSD 8.1<\/strong>
\nStatus<\/strong>: Yes
\nComment<\/strong>: Stable, however the harddrives are very unstable. Sometimes the system complains about the harddrive. See the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
FreeBSD 8.2<\/strong>
\nStatus<\/strong>: Yes
\nComment<\/strong>: Very stable. No problem found so far.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
OS X 10.4<\/strong>
\nStatus<\/strong>: No
\nComment<\/strong>: Installation failed.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
OS X 10.5.8<\/strong>
\nStatus<\/strong>: No
\nComment<\/strong>: Installation completed, but very unstable. The system reboots itself.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
OS X 10.6<\/strong>
\nStatus<\/strong>: No
\nComment<\/strong>: Installation failed<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
Ubuntu 9.10<\/strong>
\nStatus<\/strong>: Yes, stable.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
Ubuntu 10.04<\/strong>
\nStatus<\/strong>: No
\nComment<\/strong>: If install directly from the disk, the system will not boot. The only possible way is to upgrade from an earlier version. See Ubuntu 10.04 \u2013 Can\u2019t boot \/ Can\u2019t install<\/strong> for details.<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
Ubuntu 10.10<\/strong>
\nStatus<\/strong>: No
\nComment<\/strong>: Cannot even load the installation disk. <\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
Hope my experience is helpful to you.<\/p>\n
–Derrick<\/p>\n
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