[OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on Gigabyte H370M motherboards?

[Carl Brewer]

On 1/11/2018 1:22 PM, Carl Brewer wrote:
> 
> G'day,
> I've had a few tries at installing OI on a new Gigabyte H370M D3H 
> motherboard (i5 CPU).  A few of you here have helped a bit, and it got 
> to the point where it would almost start up - thank you Aurélien in 
> particular, but I'm stuck again, trying to use a USB image to install.
> 
> The MB has a few BIOS settings relating to SATA, that may be part (or 
> all?!) of the problem.
> 
> There's some BIOS options that might be relevant?
> 
> "CSM Support" : Enables or disables UEFI CSM to support a legacy PC boot 
> process
> 
> I assume that wants to be set to "Enabled" as that then allows the 
> following to be set - the default seems to be "Enabled"
> 
> "Storage boot option control" : allows you to select whether to enable 
> the UEFI or legacy option ROM for the storage device controller
> 
> I assume that wants to be set to legacy?
> 
> Also, the SATA and RST config
> SATA mode can be set, It can be Intel RST with optane. or AHCI.  I 
> assume AHCI?


Scratch the "not quite working", it's installing now, with those BIOS 
settings, using a build that Aurelian gave me last week.

Carl