Asus M5A78L-M / USB3 - Xubuntu

Hardware info on main page.

Linux is installed on the second sata drive (ad8, 320 GB)

 partition 1 - sdb1 - 72 GB (yaVDR)
 partition 2 - sdb2 - extended
                   sdb5 - swap - 9 GB
 partition 3 - sdb3 - 72 GB (Xubuntu 10.10  - i386)
 partition 4 -

boot menu: F8

Work log

2015-02-22: sdb3 - tried booting Xubuntu 10.10, but the mouse doesn't work, and I can't seem to login via the keyboard. Switching to vt1 let me login via a console eventually, and I figure out that it has got a different ip address. Logging in via the network:

tingo@kg-core1$ ping vm
PING kg-vm.kg4.no (10.1.150.15): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Host is down
^C
--- kg-vm.kg4.no ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
tingo@kg-core1$ ssh tingo@10.1.150.3
tingo@10.1.150.3's password:
Linux vm 2.6.35-28-generic-pae #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 20:43:15 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.10

Welcome to Ubuntu!
 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/

New release 'natty' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.

Last login: Sun Feb 22 14:19:23 2015 from kg-core1.kg4.no

so, there it is.

tingo@vm:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 10.10
Release:    10.10
Codename:    maverick
tingo@vm:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3              71G  3.4G   64G   6% /
none                   16G  344K   16G   1% /dev
none                   16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
none                   16G   92K   16G   1% /var/run
none                   16G     0   16G   0% /var/lock
none                   71G  3.4G   64G   6% /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs

nothing more.