[Follow-ups set to gmane.linux.centos.general] My wife had been running CentOS 6.4 almost since its inception; then her PC broke down. We got a PC from System76, and Ubuntu turned out utterly unsuitable for us, as expected -- as bad for us as Gnome3. (I had previously bought a System76 net book (starling iirc), and immediately installed the then current Fedora; all has been well with that. This time, alas!, I thought I should let her try Ubuntu; so I tried running it myself for an houror two to get it set up and tweaked. I couldn't even find any of the apps I wanted to tweak! So I put in an install disk for CentOS, and rebooted. It never came near finishing the reboot. Up popped the following: Detected CPU family 6 model 94. Warning: Intel CPU model -- this hardware has not undergone upstream testing. Please see http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ for more information. tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed. I have consulted that FAQ and more, and also System76's. I've consulted and tried more other things than most of you likely want to hear about. No joy. I've also tried rebooting without any install disk, with a Fedora install disk, with various helps such as super grub disk, and finally even with DBAN. The machine doesn't even find any of those. On any reboot, it just goes to that CentOS error message, and stops. I've also googled for '"upstream testing" hardware' Any thoughts or experience??. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
Am 07.02.2016 um 22:00 schrieb Bear Tooth:> [Follow-ups set to gmane.linux.centos.general] > > My wife had been running CentOS 6.4 almost since > its inception; then her PC broke down. > > We got a PC from System76, and Ubuntu turned out > utterly unsuitable for us, as expected -- as bad > for us as Gnome3. (I had previously bought a System76 > net book (starling iirc), and immediately installed the > then current Fedora; all has been well with that. > > This time, alas!, I thought I should let her try Ubuntu; > so I tried running it myself for an houror two > to get it set up and tweaked. > > I couldn't even find any of the apps I wanted to tweak! > So I put in an install disk for CentOS, and rebooted. > > It never came near finishing the reboot. Up popped the > following: > > > Detected CPU family 6 model 94. > > Warning: Intel CPU model -- this hardware has not > undergone upstream testing. Please see > > http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ for more information. > > tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed. > > I have consulted that FAQ and more, and also System76's. > I've consulted and tried more other things than most of you > likely want to hear about. No joy. > > I've also tried rebooting without any install disk, with a > Fedora install disk, with various helps such as super grub disk, > and finally even with DBAN. > > The machine doesn't even find any of those. On any reboot, it > just goes to that CentOS error message, and stops. > > I've also googled for '"upstream testing" hardware' > > Any thoughts or experience??. > >Did you try adding to the kernel line the parameter "clocksource=tsm" or "clocksource=acpi_pm"? Alexander
On 02/07/2016 04:09 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:> Am 07.02.2016 um 22:00 schrieb Bear Tooth: >> [Follow-ups set to gmane.linux.centos.general] >> >> My wife had been running CentOS 6.4 almost since >> its inception; then her PC broke down. >> >> We got a PC from System76, and Ubuntu turned out >> utterly unsuitable for us, as expected -- as bad >> for us as Gnome3. (I had previously bought a System76 >> net book (starling iirc), and immediately installed the >> then current Fedora; all has been well with that. >> >> This time, alas!, I thought I should let her try Ubuntu; >> so I tried running it myself for an houror two >> to get it set up and tweaked. >> >> I couldn't even find any of the apps I wanted to tweak! >> So I put in an install disk for CentOS, and rebooted. >> >> It never came near finishing the reboot. Up popped the >> following: >> >> >> Detected CPU family 6 model 94. >> >> Warning: Intel CPU model -- this hardware has not >> undergone upstream testing. Please see >> >> http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ for more information. >> >> tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed. >> >> I have consulted that FAQ and more, and also System76's. >> I've consulted and tried more other things than most of you >> likely want to hear about. No joy. >> >> I've also tried rebooting without any install disk, with a >> Fedora install disk, with various helps such as super grub disk, >> and finally even with DBAN. >> >> The machine doesn't even find any of those. On any reboot, it >> just goes to that CentOS error message, and stops. >> >> I've also googled for '"upstream testing" hardware' >> >> Any thoughts or experience??. >> >> > > > Did you try adding to the kernel line the parameter "clocksource=tsm" > or "clocksource=acpi_pm"? > > Alexander > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosJust a thought, but maybe try doing the "Unetbootin/.ISO file build" on another pc / laptop and attempt booting from the USB instead of a CD? Just my thoughts on the matter. Its something I would do just to get the OS installed, then I'd worry about the upstream stuff afterwards...perhaps after the install and a tremendous system-wide upgrade, things might look a little better? PLUS she'd at least have the OS on her machine....I'm just sayin' LoL! EGO II
On 2/7/2016 1:00 PM, Bear Tooth wrote:> So I put in an install disk for CentOS, and rebooted. > > It never came near finishing the reboot. Up popped the > following: >what version of centos was this? you previously mentioned 6.4, thats like 3-4 updates behind the current 6.7 model 94, thats a Core Ix-6xxx which is the brand new Skylake processor, lotta hardware changes on those, you likely will need the /newest/ version of the kernel for any given release for it to work, specifically 7.2 (1511) is the first version to support Skylake, and there may still be issues with the on-chip graphics as they are quite new. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz