On 02/07/2016 04:09 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

Am 07.02.2016 um 22:00 schrieb Bear Tooth:

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  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

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Just 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 Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 1:35 AM, Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com wrote:

Everything else is prone to failure.

Specifically, but not limited to, unetbootin. Really, people need to just purge unetbootin from memory and stop recommending it. I've never had it work on any (U)EFI system. And more often than not it would fail to create media even for BIOS systems. Also, it's not supported at all on Fedora, I seriously doubt it's supported by CentOS or Red Hat. Just use dd, and accept the obliteration of the USB stick. That's easy and safe.

Future talk. There's a rewrite happening on the Fedora side for LiveUSB Creator that will initially use dd on the backend. I'll guess that it'll still accept being pointed to a local ISO. There's some talk about it hopefully being more modular so it can be "branded" by different distros and hence more widely used, maintained, and reliable.