Linux compatibility: GA-970A-UD3 and newegg reviews

[john14ty66]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=13-128-519&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=100&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Keywords=linux#scrollFullInfo

There are people that say this board works with linux and people that say it definitely doesn't. How is this? Does this board actually work with linux? more specifically ubuntu 12.04?

 

[john14ty66]

If that board has UEFI BIOS, and thanks to globalist Microsoft all new boards do, it will not work with Ubuntu 12.04. It will work with Ubuntu 13.04 or later.

Some sources I've been reading say that you can get mobo's on UEFI to work with ubuntu 12.04
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
http://askubuntu.com/questions/229915/uefi-or-efi-is-possible-install-ubuntu-12-04-in-uefi-efi-boot-mode

So, I don't think that would be an issue.

 

[nss000]

My (new) MSI Z77A-gd55 advertises itself as an UEFI motherboard; BIOS v_1.2 and -- tho visually different -- presented/requested no mumbo-jumbo other than the usual BIOS rap. Recently while testing the build, I've installed half-a-dozen *nixes including RHAT & SUSE ... and the current U_12.04.x ... without any particular concern for whatever a UEFI bios is supposed to require. In general OS/HW stuff just worked.

My impressions was you must formally **turn on** the UEFI function(s) from BIOS. Mebby that's just the MSI implementation, but anyrate my experience is UEFI-labled does **not** by itself preclude Linux.

Canonical paid licence so Ubuntu 13.04 and later can be installed and to work with UEFI. So that is official. Of course, there could be a workaround that enables you to make it work with 12.04 or 12.10, but it is not guaranteed.