I have just purchased an AsR J4205 board, hoping to use it as a basic server / NAS - I had an older atom board doing this before, and although not an an expert systems admin am not a newbie either (used / installed Linux since ~ 1998), and have done some googling before posting, and read similar posts on here, Asrock and Debian forums.
So board is sold as Ubuntu 16.10 friendly, I've tried this and 16.04, 17.04 and the daily build, and the install always fails just after the grub screen, usually with
mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check : 0 Bank 4 a6000000000
sometimes also various other errors, eg : udevadm : relink 'libkmod.so.2 .....
I don't think this is just a UEFI issue, I've tried all options with the CSM mode, and both CD / DVD and USB installers
Similarly the board will install win 10, and boot (gentoo based) current Sysrescue cd, so hardware is probably OK I have updated the supplied bios (1.1 reported as buggy) to current 1.4
SO
- If anyone has this board working stably what did you do?
- I'm in single channel memory mode (checks ok with memtest) with one 8 gb Sodimm - would dual channel be any better?
- is board just too new / rare to be well supported?
- Could it be worth downgrading BIOS to 1.2 which is the version others have reported as working?
- any other ideas?
Can post further info, diagnostics if that might help.
Thanks
nomodeset
parameter set and see if you get further. If you do, I'll expand this into an answer that you can accept.code
[1.760233] sd 1:0:0:0:0 [scb] Attached SCSI diskcode
So I'm guessing it is the next step in the boot that is the problem?