Here is a challenge: how is this done? I've tried disabling the ASM1061 controller in the Onboard Devices section, using Wubi, booting from USB (as I don't have a DVD drive, yet), and even booting from RAID/IDE (with AHCI as the default) to do this. Still, no dice.

Google shows up virtually nothing related about Linux and this mobo, apart from a people just saying "disable ASMedia" (which, I assume is the ASM1061 controller, as that's all I see - apart from the USB 3.0, which I disabled already) and it hasn't really helped much.

Thus, what is wrong here?

Edit

My problem is that I cannot boot Linux via USB or a simple Windows installer such as Wubi (for Ubuntu).

I wind up getting error messages along the lines of write cache failed, along with many other cryptic error messages similar to the following:

[ 1400.351374] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[ 1400.353433] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
[ 1400.356601] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through 

This seems to be common for Asus P8Z68-M Pro motherboards, with the only notable solution being to "disable ASMedia", which, as I said before, I'm guessing is the ASM1061 controller on the motherboard. Despite already disabling this, I have tried this with both Fedora and Ubuntu without any success.

I need to know what I can do about this; has anyone ran into something similar or heard about this issue before? I know these motherboards are relatively new...