Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 08/02/2017 09:55 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On 07/27/2017 04:16 PM, wwp wrote:
... It is as simple as unknown hardware at boot up, it's a well known issue w/ *Lake hardware (modern hardware) that kernel 3.x cannot handle. CentOS7 has a kernel which is simply not modern, unable to handle lots of computers sold currently.
That said, there might be a way to boot, but nothing trivial and nothing at all I could find on the Internet, everytime it's kernel 4.3/4.10 minimum required.
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In EL-land, kernel versions are effectively meaningless, since features, hardware support, bugfixes, security fixes, etc are back-ported into the 'old and not modern' 3.10 kernel (for EL7) by competent developers at Red Hat. An EL 3.10 kernel, such as the current
Just as a point of information, CentOS 6 runs on a Knights Landing architecture, though 7.x makes more features available. And that was about a year ago....
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