X86-PC supported motherboards

[tony]

Please provide feedback on all motherboards you have tried the V3 X86-PC release on.

For boards that work, please provide the model number and possible revision if available. Also specify if the built-in ethernets are operational.

For boards that do not work, please provide the model number, chipset, memory and processor being used.

We have tested boards ranging from ATX-733 to AMD64 X2 systems with success, and will post the models once we have that information available. To date, all boards we have tried are fully supported.

Disk-On-Modules (DOMs) and CF cards in an ATA->CF adapters have both been tested, and are fully functional.

System requirements for the X86-PC release:
*) 586-class system or higher
*) 32MB RAM minimum, more recommended
*) DOM or CF set to PRIMARY MASTER. Please be sure about this before you upgrade.
*) At least one supported ethernet device (http://forums.star-os.com/showthread.php?t=5694)

With regards to the CF/DOM modules. Make sure they are set to MASTER. This can sometimes be set via a jumper on the module, or via power connector.

Ensure you are booting from the primary ATA interface. Booting from an ATA RAID controller is not supported.

Not being able to get past the LILO boot message would most likely mean one of the above requirements has not been satisfied.

[tkerns]

Motherboard - VIA EPIA 800
64 meg CF
128 meg mem
Ethernet - 4 port National Semi DP8381
Onboard Ether disabled
NO WIRELESS

In running ver2, hardware watchdog was not enabled, when I loaded the cross over software, the watchdog showed as enabled, but after loading Ver3 it is no longer showing as enabled. Is this a display issue with the cross over software and that the via board does not have hardware watchdog support?

Just started testing, this pc will be an edge/gateway router for firewall, routing, bw control, and layer7 bw control.

Upgrade went smooth, all settings remained, the ethernet adapter came back as configured.

[tony]

The watchdog is actually enabled, but not shown as such. This is cosmetic, and will be corrected in the next release.

Thank you for your feedback.

[greg]

Got any recommendations for Mobo's that you've specifically tested? I'm about to upgrade my two main servers and would like to buy something that falls into the middle of what you're designing around.

I put ver 3 on 3 different servers over the weekend and one is fine, the other locks up under a load. I rolled it back to ver 2 and it's holding its own.

Here are the specifics:

I use the one for FW and NAT (P4X400 Dragon Lite) - P4 2.4 ghz - onboard eth is enabled and working under v3.

My CBQ (Asus A7N8X-X) with AMD 2800+ worked ok for about a day then continually locked up starting Monday morning. Onboard eth not detected or enabled. It did not lock up if I removed the CBQ rules. I rolled back to v2 and it has been fine since.

Third one is Asus A7N8X. Boots but I haven't really tested it in depth yet. Did try it as CBQ briefly to replace one above with issues and it locked up too.

[mp3turbo]

ah, they have one common thing : asus MB. Try to use intel based stuff, you'll be surprised, taiwanese/amd clones usually exhibit problems with Pci implementation and stability under heavy load (and yes, wireless puts high load on the bus, technically, due to large number of interrupts). We have never had stable amd platform with many different chipsets, when moved to intel (standard pcs, intel 440bx, intel 815, intel 810 chipsets, i845/i848 for p4), all problems just simply went away.

[greg]

None of these three servers have any wireless cards in them. 3-4 ethernet each and all on separate IRQ's.

[warbot]

What about PCengines ALIX boards, are they support..?

[DrLove73]

Only partially. There is no official support, nor will it be in foreseeable future.

[dc2005]

If you use the PC-X86 edition of StarOS then it seems to work fine on the Alix - the only downside is that the serial console doesn't work like it used to on the wrap edition of StarOS. The wrap distribution doesn't support the ethernet chipset so isn't of much use on this board.

[tog]

Also important, you don't get the hardware watchdog.