On 08/02/2017 10:55 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 07/27/2017 04:16 PM, wwp wrote: >> ... >> It is as simple as unknown hardware at boot up, it's a well known issue >> w/ *Lake hardware (modern hardware) that kernel 3.x cannot handle. >> CentOS7 has a kernel which is simply not modern, unable to handle lots >> of computers sold currently. >> >> That said, there might be a way to boot, but nothing trivial and >> nothing at all I could find on the Internet, everytime it's kernel >> 4.3/4.10 minimum required. > ... > > While I know that Johnny has provided the experimental kernel (thanks, > Johnny) I would like to just briefly address this idea that the C7 > kernel is 'obviously' not going to work because 'is 3.x and must have > 4.x.' > > In EL-land, kernel versions are effectively meaningless, since > features, hardware support, bugfixes, security fixes, etc are > back-ported into the 'old and not modern' 3.10 kernel (for EL7) by > competent developers at Red Hat. An EL 3.10 kernel, such as the > current 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 one, may have hardware support > back-ported from a 4.x kernel that doesn't exist in the vanilla > kernel.org kernel (I'm almost certain it does, but I'm not going to > take the time to get details). > > So it is very possible that full hardware support for your hardware > could show up in a 3.10 kernel (in fact, I would expect that this > would happen, but it might not happen quickly). As you found out, > experimental kernels and non-distribution kernels can freak out > software packages, such as VMware Workstation, that only work with > certain kernels and are expecting a particular kernel version and ABI > for EL7. I've tried out a few non-standard kernels before, and if you > rely on packages that depend upon the distribution default kernel > version (as I do with kmod-nvidia from ELrepo!) that breakage can be > swift, and can derail you in a hurry, causing you to go down a rabbit > hole very quickly. So be prepared and keep your eyes open for these > issues. > > In some circles, the back-porting of features into old kernels is > controversial; but that is a business decision made as part of the EL > development and is not likely to change any time soon. YMMV. > _______________________________________________ I missed some of the responses but have you tried kernel-ml for RHEL 7 yet? See http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml Mike