UEFI Build Test

[ohjrson]

OK Jerry
Here is my report. After lets say attaining a Dell Poweredge T310 with 2.4 ghz quadcore processors and 8 gs of ram with the ability to hot swap 4 HDD I have successfully installed LL 2.8 into the machine.

Mind you I had to figure out which one HDD I installed it into once I did get it installed onto a hrad drive. I can tell you it was really quite simple once I put some thought into it.

1. I did not keep track of which HDD were #1 #2 etc.. when I pulled them out and reformatted them for use on another machine. So I probably had them in wrong.

2. Everything installed just fine through the live DVD that I burned directly from an ISO...Which the Live DVD worked just great as well on its own before rebooting into the chaos that awaited me...  ( as I mentioned I was not paying attention to the order of the HDDs.)

3. Once I excluded the HDDs one by one and found the HDD that had the installed LL 2.8 in it i'm assuming that since LL 2.8 was the only OS that the UEFI could find it opened and ran the software. (just fine I might add)

4. I did have to exclude the Google Chrome repository in the updates to get the updates to download but once that was done everything worked just like it was supposed to. (Note-Maybe take the google chrome repository completely out of the list.) Nothing else impeded the updates.

That being said I do need some help with installing Windows 7 into a virtual machine on this system as I have never used virtual machine or installed in one before.

So far aside from not having a sound card on this machine everything works ok. THe only thing I have an issue with is the flickering that the mouse does when used. I'm not sure if this is a setting related issue or what but it is getting annoying. The mouse is constantly flickering along with periodic full screen flickers as well... (Any ideas?) I have tried to look under ettings to resolve this but can not seem to find it. I also see that the screen edges are not right either. How can I change the sizes of that... or align them up right. I will include a screen shot on the next post as I am on a different machine right now.

Thanks.


Oh Snap... How do I put pics or screen shots in here again?