On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Rajeev R. K. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu 26 Feb, 2015 11:38 Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Atom cpu boards are hard to find and they are expensive. > > I am considering buying the newer Celeron (J1800 and J1900 CPUs) based > mini ITX boards from Biostar/Gigabyte. Reading the reviews on > various e-stores, people have faced issues installing the OS. > > Please share your Linux experience in case you have installed Linux on > these boards. > .... snip .... > > Hmmm. I haven't installed on these boards, but have been experimenting with > an embedded terminal with a J1900 series CPU(currently running Ubuntu, > should move it to fedora soon). So should be quite straightforward. > However, if you are having issues, you could bring the board over to my > place, and I can assist with getting Linux onto it. Just let me know a day > or 2 in advance so that we can figure out a time when i will be free and at > home. >
Thanks for the offer, appreciate it. In the reviews that I read, people had issues with the BIOS not allowing Windows 7 installation; something to do with secure boot stuff. Anyway, I will download the manual and see if the BIOS can be set to Legacy Mode, if allowed then installation of any Linux distro should be straight forward. -- Arun Khan -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
