[LinuxBIOS] mobo suggestions?

[John Heim]

Hi,

I'm blind and I want to try linuxbios to see if that will allow me to 
access the BIOS on a computer. I would like to try to build myself a new 
PC and I was wondering if anybody has a suggestion for a motherboard. On 
the web site, there's a list of mobos that linuxbios is known to work on 
but they seem to be server motherboards.  I just want something that I 
can use for a desktop workstation.

[Ronald G Minnich]

John Heim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm blind and I want to try linuxbios to see if that will allow me to 
> access the BIOS on a computer. I would like to try to build myself a new 
> PC and I was wondering if anybody has a suggestion for a motherboard. On 
> the web site, there's a list of mobos that linuxbios is known to work on 
> but they seem to be server motherboards.  I just want something that I 
> can use for a desktop workstation.

we have not done desktops for a while. I wonder if an AMD GX2-based 
system might be good for you-- how much compute power are you looking for?

ron

[John Heim]

> we have not done desktops for a while. I wonder if an AMD GX2-based 
> system might be good for you-- how much compute power are you looking for?

Not that much. Right now my Windows machine is a a 800 Mhz machine with 
256Mb RAM. It serves me fine except that I can't access the BIOS and I 
just want to build a new PC just to do it -- you know, being blind and 
all. I thought I'd go for something fairly up-to-date but I don't want 
to spend too much money. But the point of this project is not to save 
money. I just want to build a really nice PC.

I have several linux machines but the one I use the most is a 150 Mhz 
machine. The linux screen reader works in character mode so I don't need 
much power.  But I would like to make my new machine bual-boot.

[Ronald G Minnich]

I'd go with a tyan s2885 mobo to start -- has graphics, we know that 
linuxbios can bring up 8x AGP cards on it, supported in linuxbios.

ron

[David Hendricks]

Dual boot? That might be a problem. I know Windows 2000 has been booted with
LinuxBIOS, but I can't remember any Windows XP success stories.

On 7/11/06, John Heim  wrote:
> I have several linux machines but the one I use the most is a 150 Mhz
> machine. The linux screen reader works in character mode so I don't need
> much power.  But I would like to make my new machine bual-boot.