Re: [CentOS] Intel Skylake Server

2017-09-14 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 07:38:58PM +0100, Mark (Netbook) wrote: > CentOS 6.9 has support for the Haswell processor which is a subset of the > Skylake. > > All Skylake server ancillary components work perfectly with CentOS 6.9. Note that there can be issues. My desktop is: Intel(R) Xeon(R) C

Re: [CentOS] Intel Skylake Server

2017-09-14 Thread Mark (Netbook)
14, 2017 5:37 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Intel Skylake Server When I try and load CentOS 6.9 the boot process hangs just as the Anaconda graphics is started for CentOS configuration. CentOS 6.9 kernel does not have support for Skylake processors, I believe that there

Re: [CentOS] Intel Skylake Server

2017-09-14 Thread Earl A Ramirez
> > > > When I try and load CentOS 6.9 the boot process hangs just as the Anaconda > graphics is started for CentOS configuration. > CentOS 6.9 kernel does not have support for Skylake processors, I believe that there is an alternate arch SIG that "may" be able to compile 6.9 with a newer kernel o

Re: [CentOS] Intel Skylake Server

2017-09-14 Thread Mark (Netbook)
Hello, I have a pre-production Intel Skylake server using dual 8176 processors (28 core @2.1Ghz) I have loaded from the DVD distribution CentOS 7.3 and RHEL 7.4 with no problems. When I try and load CentOS 6.9 the boot process hangs just as the Anaconda graphics is started for CentOS configur