On 10/02/2014 12:01 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > Most of the machines (I think all of them, actually) started to boot > Centos 6 to at least some extent. They just failed (lock up, kernel > panic, etc) somewhere along the line after that. And Centos 7 did work > on the third one that I tried. On the HP laptop I mentioned earlier, I absolutely could not get C6.5 live to boot (kernel panic). But I was able to install C6.5 on it using the net install iso! Not sure what is different with the two, but the machine ran C6.5 perfectly (except touchscreen, which I never attempted to research).