On 02/07/2016 04:09 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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