[CentOS] "upstream testing"??

Sun Feb 7 21:09:41 UTC 2016
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

Am 07.02.2016 um 22:00 schrieb Bear Tooth:
> 	[Follow-ups set to gmane.linux.centos.general]
>
>   	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