Fedora 11 installation on Thinkpad X31- Unstable tsc

[Justin P. Mattock]

Nguyen Duy Phuong wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. Sorry don't understand vanilla kernel. X31 deso 
> not have cd rom and does not support booting from usb flash drive, 
> only usb diskette and usb cd rom, both I don't have. I have XP already 
> installed. I copied the vmlinuz0 and initrd from F11 LiveCD iso to 
> C:/boot, the grldr and menu.lst from Grub for Dos 0.4.4 to C:/boot and 
> C:/boot/grub correspondingly. boot.ini and menu.lst were revised a 
> little bit as usual and then I rebooted. Got stuck at unstable tsc as 
> described. If the liveCD does not support my laptop will the full 
> version (will buy external cd rom if necessary though not preferrably. 
> BTW could not find full version of F11) or another distro like ubuntu, 
> suse etc. work?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock at gmail.com>
> *To:* "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using 
> Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, July 31, 2009 11:43:20 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Fedora 11 installation on Thinkpad X31- Unstable tsc
>
> Nguyen Duy Phuong wrote:
> > Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Have tried F11 hard disk based 
> installation unsuccessfully on my X31 for the 5th day. After choosing 
> grub at boot (Windows XP is still functional) the insatallation hangs at
> > firewire_core: created device fw0...
> > clocksource tsc unstable (delta=-255137765 ns)
> > Have tried to add to the kernel line in menu.lst either "highres=off 
> ohz=off irqpoll", or "clocksource=hpet", "clocksource=acpi_pm", or 
> "clocksource=jiffies", or "acpi=off", etc. to no avail. vmlinuz0, init.
> > I wonder if you can please help. Cheers.
> >
> Fresh install, or a fresh install with a vanilla kernel?
> make sure ext4 is compiled in the kernel
> (just sat for a few yours wondering why my system wasn't
> booting!! ended up being just as simple as that)
>
> If  you have not done anything to the internals then it could be the arch
> of the cd, or maybe the livecd itself has no support for your machine
> i.g. I'm noticing my imac with the 130 graphics card results in a 
> black screen
> (cant even install fedora on that machne!!)
>
> Justin P. Mattock
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I'm wondering if your system has issues
like what most mac's do, i.g. booting a system
through usb/ieee1394 is a bit tricky.

In your case you would have to install the .iso
to the usb stick(and make it bootable) before doing any
kind of install. Doing a quick google resulted in nothing
for me, but there is a tutorial out there that deals with setting up the
certain files to the usb, so that  the bios can see the drive as a bootable
system, so you'll be able to boot.

Justin P. Mattock