I have a new system with an AMD Ryzen 1600 CPU and I'm trying to run CentOS, so far without success. The only information I could find was a post reporting that CentOS 7 would crash during installation on a Ryzen system: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=61831 . I tried updating to the latest elrepo "mainline stable" kernel, version 4.11 (by booting from a live CD and using chroot to enter CentOS: that worked), but the system still doesn't work properly. I'm using CentOS 6 but I'll switch to CentOS 7 if that will help. (But I assume that if installing the latest kernel didn't help, neither would going to CentOS 7.) Any suggestions? Is it known whether the next version will work properly with Ryzen? Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca>
The issue is likely about the chipset not being properly supported and so you will have to wait and see if 6.10/7.4 helps. You may want to check the RH release notes for RHEL 6.10/7.4 and see if support for the processor is listed there. While I can't assure you that upgrading to 7 will fix the problem, the likeliness that will work is at least 50% better being as 7 is based on a newer kernel. ----- On 29 Jun, 2017, at 13:53, Yves Bellefeuille yan at storm.ca wrote: | I have a new system with an AMD Ryzen 1600 CPU and I'm trying to run | CentOS, so far without success. The only information I could find was | a post reporting that CentOS 7 would crash during installation on a | Ryzen system: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=61831 . | | I tried updating to the latest elrepo "mainline stable" kernel, | version 4.11 (by booting from a live CD and using chroot to enter | CentOS: that worked), but the system still doesn't work properly. | | I'm using CentOS 6 but I'll switch to CentOS 7 if that will help. (But | I assume that if installing the latest kernel didn't help, neither | would going to CentOS 7.) | | Any suggestions? Is it known whether the next version will work | properly with Ryzen? | | Yves Bellefeuille | <yan at storm.ca> | | | _______________________________________________ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS at centos.org | https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter : @sfu_rcg Powering Engagement Through Technology
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote:> While I can't assure you that upgrading to 7 will fix the problem, > the likeliness that will work is at least 50% better being as 7 is > based on a newer kernel.I've installed CentOS 7 with the latest kernel from elrepo (4.11.8), and I can't get Grub to install. I think I'll have to conclude that it really doesn't work with Ryzen. :-( Debian seems to work, so I'll try it for a while. Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca>
On 06/29/2017 03:53 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:> I have a new system with an AMD Ryzen 1600 CPU and I'm trying to run > CentOS, so far without success. The only information I could find was > a post reporting that CentOS 7 would crash during installation on a > Ryzen system: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=61831 . > > I tried updating to the latest elrepo "mainline stable" kernel, > version 4.11 (by booting from a live CD and using chroot to enter > CentOS: that worked), but the system still doesn't work properly. > > I'm using CentOS 6 but I'll switch to CentOS 7 if that will help. (But > I assume that if installing the latest kernel didn't help, neither > would going to CentOS 7.) > > Any suggestions? Is it known whether the next version will work > properly with Ryzen? > > Yves Bellefeuille > <yan at storm.ca>If you buy me one, I'll create an installer that works for it :) Seriously though, I can regenerate an installer for ryzen if you find that a newer regular kernel works but the original one does not. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20170703/1f7c4309/attachment.sig>