Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-10-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 09:10:56PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 17:29 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Tom Rausner wrote: Hi Folks. I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) to another (say a CDROM),

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-10-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Tom Rausner wrote: Hi Folks. I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors. I think some pathways in the motherboard is broken, so I want to replace it. BUT most of the

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 17:29 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Tom Rausner wrote: Hi Folks. I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors. I think some pathways in the

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-10-18 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net writes: On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 17:29 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Tom Rausner wrote: Hi Folks. I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) to another (say a CDROM), without drowning

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-10-18 Thread Wally Lepore
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: Tom Rausner wrote: Hi Folks. I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors. I think some

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-10-18 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 18 October 2012 20:43:05 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net writes: On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 17:29 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Tom Rausner wrote: Hi Folks. I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to pass data from one place

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-13 Thread lee
Tom Rausner t...@rausner.dk writes: Hi. ons, 12 09 2012 kl. 03:01 +0200, skrev lee: Get an MSI board if you can. Asus sucks and Gigabyte is the worst crap you can get. I don't have any experience with Asrock, though. Well, it ended up with an ASRock. Let us know how it turns out in about

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-13 Thread lee
Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org writes: On 12/09/12 02:01, lee wrote: Tom Rausner t...@rausner.dk writes: Generally I would agree and I was looking at MSI and ASUS to start with. I just happened to clap my eyes on this one by accident -and liked it. Get an MSI board if you can.

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-13 Thread Tom Rausner
tor, 13 09 2012 kl. 05:02 +0200, skrev lee: Let us know how it turns out in about three years from now :) I wouldn't be suprised if I stil was happily using the ASRock... -- Tom Rausner -- www.tomtech.dk tomt...@tomtech.dk

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:13:55 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 17:52 +, skrev Camaleón: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:51:22 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: A bad copy does not have to mean a hardware problem. Maybe using a different software to do the copy process could have helped to

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:05:41 -0400, Doug wrote: On 09/11/2012 11:16 AM, Tom Rausner wrote: Hi. tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 16:40 +0200, skrev maderios: Hi I bought uefi motherboard 1 year ago. It works well with squeeze weezy and sid. UEFI changes nothing. Thanks for the help. I'm buying an

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Tom Rausner
Hi. tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 20:05 -0400, skrev Doug: Why not report back after you have installed an OS on it. Yeah, why not. The board comes in a pile of stuff I've orderet. It should be here monday so I should get it done some time next week. Tom Rausner

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread lee
Tom Rausner t...@rausner.dk writes: Generally I would agree and I was looking at MSI and ASUS to start with. I just happened to clap my eyes on this one by accident -and liked it. Get an MSI board if you can. Asus sucks and Gigabyte is the worst crap you can get. I don't have any experience

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 12/09/12 02:01, lee wrote: Tom Rausner t...@rausner.dk writes: Generally I would agree and I was looking at MSI and ASUS to start with. I just happened to clap my eyes on this one by accident -and liked it. Get an MSI board if you can. Asus sucks and Gigabyte is the worst crap you can

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Tom Rausner
Hi. ons, 12 09 2012 kl. 03:01 +0200, skrev lee: Get an MSI board if you can. Asus sucks and Gigabyte is the worst crap you can get. I don't have any experience with Asrock, though. Well, it ended up with an ASRock. -- Tom Rausner

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Tom Rausner
Hey Tony... ons, 12 09 2012 kl. 18:18 +0100, skrev Tony van der Hoff: Get an MSI board if you can. Asus sucks and Gigabyte is the worst crap you can get. I don't have any experience with Asrock, though. I didn't write this (just for your information) I read your 'installation' post, and

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 12/09/12 18:34, Tom Rausner wrote: Hey Tony... ons, 12 09 2012 kl. 18:18 +0100, skrev Tony van der Hoff: Get an MSI board if you can. Asus sucks and Gigabyte is the worst crap you can get. I don't have any experience with Asrock, though. I didn't write this (just for your

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Tom Rausner
Hi. ons, 12 09 2012 kl. 18:40 +0100, skrev Tony van der Hoff: No, you didn't; neither did I, it was Lee. But you have just snipped all the attributions... Well.. sorry. -- Tom Rausner t...@rausner.dk

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Go Linux
--- On Wed, 9/12/12, Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: From: Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org Subject: Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 12:18 PM I've never had a problem with ASUS boards. YMMV

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 19:21 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: Well, it ended up with an ASRock. And I switched from ASRock to ASUS ;). It's fortuitousness, we can have bad or good luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I had issues with an ASUS board when it was new. Now it's old, several BIOS updates later, it's the perfect Linux machine. I only struggle with an IRQ issue for a new audio card, something that can happen with every mobo. Btw. today I don't care anymore, if there should be new BIOS updates. I

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Rausner
man, 10 09 2012 kl. 21:02 +0200, skrev tv.deb...@googlemail.com: Hi, UEFI isn't (normally) a problem, it's the hype around the secure boot feature that gives free operating systems users the chills. I know, but I'm not quite sure exactly what kind of problems I might run into using an

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:28:34 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors. What kind of errors? I think some pathways in the motherboard is

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread maderios
On 09/10/2012 08:28 PM, Tom Rausner wrote: Hi Folks. I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors. I think some pathways in the motherboard is broken, so I want to replace

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Rausner
Hi. tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 16:40 +0200, skrev maderios: Hi I bought uefi motherboard 1 year ago. It works well with squeeze weezy and sid. UEFI changes nothing. Thanks for the help. I'm buying an UEFI-board. Just wanted to be sure I wouldn't get any bad surprises. -- Tom Rausner

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Rausner
tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 14:35 +, skrev Camaleón: What kind of errors? Corrupt data How did you reach to that conclusion? Maybe is simply a bad cabling or almost-death port :-? I've made sure all cables was OK. I'm not sure what you mean by the almost-death port-statement, so that must be

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:24:23 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 14:35 +, skrev Camaleón: What kind of errors? Corrupt data The logs or messages just said corrupt data? :-? Have you considered the optical media could be broken? I say this because the symptoms for a faulty

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Rausner
tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 16:26 +, skrev Camaleón: The logs or messages just said corrupt data? :-? Have you considered the optical media could be broken? I say this because the symptoms for a faulty motherboard are usually rather different. I just discovered the data to be corrupted. And I

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
Am 10.09.2012 20:28, schrieb Tom Rausner: Hi Folks. I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors. I think some pathways in the motherboard is broken, so I want to

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:51:22 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 16:26 +, skrev Camaleón: The logs or messages just said corrupt data? :-? Have you considered the optical media could be broken? I say this because the symptoms for a faulty motherboard are usually rather

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Rausner
tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 17:52 +, skrev Camaleón: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:51:22 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: A bad copy does not have to mean a hardware problem. Maybe using a different software to do the copy process could have helped to diagnose the problem. I did try different software

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 11/09/2012 21:13, Tom Rausner wrote: tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 17:52 +, skrev Camaleón: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:51:22 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: [...] I have it in my list of low-end (cheap) manufacturers, along with Biostar and DFI. I prefer MSI, Gigabyte or even Asus. Buy hey, there can be

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Doug
On 09/11/2012 11:16 AM, Tom Rausner wrote: Hi. tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 16:40 +0200, skrev maderios: Hi I bought uefi motherboard 1 year ago. It works well with squeeze weezy and sid. UEFI changes nothing. Thanks for the help. I'm buying an UEFI-board. Just wanted to be sure I wouldn't get any

Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-10 Thread Tom Rausner
Hi Folks. I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors. I think some pathways in the motherboard is broken, so I want to replace it. BUT most of the motherboards on the

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-10 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 10/09/2012 20:28, Tom Rausner wrote: Hi Folks. I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors. I think some pathways in the motherboard is broken, so I want to replace