On 05/12/2018 03:24 PM, Rainer Fügenstein wrote: > Hello Jonathan, > > Saturday, May 12, 2018, 9:39:01 PM, you wrote: > >> At a bare minimum, I'd try using CentOS 7 1804: >> http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/ > > thanks; after some waiting time, 1804 now keeps repeating "dracut > initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts" for a while, then drops > into the emergency shell. no suspicious error messages in the log. > > > did change SATA mode from ATA to AHCI in the BIOS, but this didn't > change anything. Is the bios on the Dell Latitude E6500 up to date. I run CentOS-7 on a bunch of dell laptops with intel video. Not that specific model though. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20180513/45e40678/attachment-0005.sig>