[CentOS] "upstream testing"??
Alexander Dalloz
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Sun Feb 7 21:09:41 UTC 2016
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
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