[CentOS] Unsupported Hardware that works fine?

Tue Nov 26 01:04:27 UTC 2013
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 11/25/2013 4:42 PM, Lists wrote:
> I recently purchased a set of ASRock Intel i5 MB/CPU combos for a budget
> compute cluster. Every time we load up a system and try to boot with a
> recent EL6/64 ISO, we get a message that reads:
>
>   > This hardware (or a combination thereof) is not supported by CentOS.
> For more
>   > information on supported hardware, plesae refer to
> http://www.centos.org/hardware
>
> Not only does the hardware*seem*  to work to expectations, but the url
> referenced goes to 404!
>
> Having loaded CentOS6 on many systems without ever seeing this message,
> I have to ask how to determine what might be triggering it and whether
> or not I should be concerned?

what chipset and which core i5 (there's at least 3, maybe 4 generations 
of 'core i5' processors now)

do you still get that error after a `yum update -y`  and a reboot ?




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