The Asus motherboard that has sat here for a few years seems to be defective. It will not boot directly from the EFI /dev/sda1/. It will if I manually enter the BIOS settings and select that drive as the boot source. Otherwise, it shows that it loaded the Slackware-14.2/x86_64 vmlinuz then it freezes.
Last week after getting the drives sorted out it did -- once -- reboot successfully, but not since then. I downloaded the Asus BIOS firmware version 2016-08-05, put it (unzipped, of course) on a USB flash drive, and followed the Asus instructions for upgrading the BIOS that way. Got to the point where the system saw the flash drive but would not let me access the file info for that drive. Unless someone here has ideas for me to try I think that I need to spend the money to buy a new systemboard, CPU, and memory. I prefer AMD processors and the Razen5 series gets good reviews. I'm not a gamer so I don't think I need hardware for that, but I want an 8-core CPU for spatial and statistical analyses of large scientific data sets. Asus seems to make good motherboard (but for mine). I am open to suggestions for replacements for this current system that would be sufficiently new and capable of handling multi-threaded processes. If it uses DDR3 RAM that would be a bonus since I just bought an additional 8G (16G total); if DDR4 is the way to go so be it. TIA, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
