Asrock C70M1



Asrock C70M1 is a low-cost small form factor motherboard with integrated AMD Dual-Core Ontario C-70 APU and four SATA connectors which makes it suitable for small storage or server use.

Hardware notes
When initramfs fails and you enter recovery shell, USB keyboard won't work and you'll have to use PS/2. On the other hand, USB keyboard can be used for choosing the boot media and entering UEFI setup as well as working with the setup.

Compilation speed
The CPU is rather slow so it may be worth avoiding some steps that make the installation unnecessarily time consuming.

Installing genkernel/genkernel-next
When you are not using systemd, you can choose between and. The former is often used with, that with the  USE flag depends on  that depend on  which is extremely slow to build. On the other hand, (as of Feb 2015) pulls in that dependency unconditionally.

Therefore I recommend to avoid entirely and to build  instead and build  without the   USE flag when booting from LVM.

Changing CFLAGS, bootstrapping compiler and rebuilding the system
Either avoid bootstrapping the compiler and rebuilding the system or assign two days to the task. In a fresh installation it's not much work for you but both bootstrapping and rebuilding takes a lot of time. You may want to chain the two actions to wait only once.