[CentOS] AMD Ryzen and CentOS

[James A. Peltier]

The issue is likely about the chipset not being properly supported and so you will have to wait and see if 6.10/7.4 helps.  You may want to check the RH release notes for RHEL 6.10/7.4 and see if support for the processor is listed there.

While I can't assure you that upgrading to 7 will fix the problem, the likeliness that will work is at least 50% better being as 7 is based on a newer kernel.

----- On 29 Jun, 2017, at 13:53, Yves Bellefeuille yan at storm.ca wrote:

| I have a new system with an AMD Ryzen 1600 CPU and I'm trying to run
| CentOS, so far without success. The only information I could find was
| a post reporting that CentOS 7 would crash during installation on a
| Ryzen system: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=61831 .
| 
| I tried updating to the latest elrepo "mainline stable" kernel,
| version 4.11 (by booting from a live CD and using chroot to enter
| CentOS: that worked), but the system still doesn't work properly.
| 
| I'm using CentOS 6 but I'll switch to CentOS 7 if that will help. (But
| I assume that if installing the latest kernel didn't help, neither
| would going to CentOS 7.)
| 
| Any suggestions? Is it known whether the next version will work
| properly with Ryzen?
| 
| Yves Bellefeuille
| <yan at storm.ca>
| 
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