W dniu 20.10.2019 o 20:48, Michael Howard pisze: > On 20/10/2019 17:40, Steve McIntyre wrote:
I did not played with Gigabyte board. Have APM Mustang under desk (but not used it for a while). >> First question: how are you booting the system? U-Boot or UEFI? > Both :) My approach with this board has been to chainload UEFI from > u-boot , the board in the same state as it arrived a few years back. Can not it be flashed with UEFI to skip U-Boot part? > With a centos 4.5 kernel I get the mmc slot as I do with mainline 4.2 > and debian. > > With newer kernels, no mmc slot. Boot last kernel which worked, check kernel messages, modules, device tree. Compare with one when it does not work. Share results. > Ultimately, I wanted to use the four sata slots for iSCSI but that > leaves me with no OS. I could of course just use the 4.2 kernel that > works but I want to know why .... Have you considered adding PCI Express cards? NVME, SAS controller? I used my Mustang with PCIe -> NVME adapter card and NVME in it. Worked fine but had to keep /boot/ /boot/efi on USB stick as last version (3.06.25) of Mustang firmware did not recognized NVME. > USB sucks on this board (and so might the mmc slot), an install to > usb takes in the order of 10 times the time to install to sata. X-Gene USB is USB 2.0 speed only.
