On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 01:34:12 -0800
Tomas K <[email protected]> dijo:
>For what it is wort it 42.2 will not boot your new HW, you either
>install 42.3 or do not waste your time. I know, I have tried that on
>the same CPU and chipset before.
OK, it booted!
To accomplish this I unplugged all SATA data cables from the
motherboard except the one for the SSD. After seeing OpenSUSE boot with
them all unplugged I plugged them back in and rebooted, one device at a
time, starting (1) with the funny USB device (making sure I was looking
at it sideways), then (2) the WD drive, then (3) the brand new DVD
drive, and finally (4) the Blu-ray drive. Results
(1) No problem with the funny USB device
(2) No problem with the WD drive, except a really long boot time
(3) OS hangs
(4) OS hangs
So what is it with the optical drives?
OK, problem solved. As all of us who have worked with this motherboard
know, many things are not labeled, and when they are labeled they are
often wrong, and at least strange. So it is with the SATA connectors.
There are two SATA-Express connectors, one of which is in use for the
funny USB device. The manual shows ten additional connectors but, in
fact, there are only six additional connectors. They are in two banks
of three and they are labeled:
3_0 3_2
3_1 3_3
3_4 3_5
I had connected the SSD to 3_0 and the WD to 3_3 because anything else
increases boot time dramatically. That left four unused, so I plugged
the optical drives (one at a time) into each one of the four, but it
would always hang. Then, struck by inspiration, I noted that the
SATA-Express connectors each had two SATA connectors, and only one
connector was in use for the funny USB device, so I plugged the optical
drives into the two SATA connectors for the other SATA-Express
connector. Voilà!
Now I'm off to see how badly I can screw up installing Xubuntu 17.10.1.
THANKS to all who suffered through this saga!
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