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Has anyone successfully installed ClearOS 7 on a Gigabyte GA-J3455N-D3H mini ITX motherboard?
I'm attempting to install ClearOS 7 on this same motherboard without much success. It has an Intel Apollo Lake Celeron J3455 processor.
I've attempted the install both from a USB key and a DVD.
The install is always very slow and it seems to hang up at random points but most commonly at 'Starting Network Manager' or 'Starting Login Service' My most recent attempt it got as far as the installer screen with the green options bar along the bottom but this eventually went to a blank screen and hung there.
I've tried hitting TAB at the ClearOS boot screen and adding 'vga=normal' and also 'apci=off' but neither seems to have helped improve the random hanging.

Just as a further note the system has 2x 8GB memory sticks installed and a crucial ssd connected to SATA 0

Many Thanks
Gavin
Wednesday, May 08 2019, 11:54 PM
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    Thursday, October 31 2019, 08:41 PM - #Permalink
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    That is not good news about the ElRepo kernels. Have you tried the CentOS Plus Project. They appear to have modified kernels available.
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    Thursday, October 31 2019, 08:11 PM - #Permalink
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    Nick Howitt wrote:

    Your best bet is to try googling "j3455 centos". You could wait for a good ClearOS 7.7 iso, due in the next couple of weeks (the beta iso doesn't work). If you do get an installation to work, you can always try the kernels from ElRepo as they are the most up to date. ClearOS is now completely compatible with them.

    .... and the kernel we use is not as old as it seems. RedHat backport a lot of updates from the later kernels into the current one and our latest is pretty much equivalent to 4.14, I believe, despite the numbering.


    in the ElRepo repository, kernel-lt-4.4.198 and kernel-ml-5.3.8 are now available. On kernel-lt-4.4.198, GA-J3455N-D3H does not start, on kernel-ml-5.3.8 there is a panic :)
    So at the moment, only my method is suitable!
    Or integrate the new core into ISO. Is there any easy way to do this?
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    Thursday, October 31 2019, 07:53 PM - #Permalink
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    Your best bet is to try googling "j3455 centos". You could wait for a good ClearOS 7.7 iso, due in the next couple of weeks (the beta iso doesn't work). If you do get an installation to work, you can always try the kernels from ElRepo as they are the most up to date. ClearOS is now completely compatible with them.

    .... and the kernel we use is not as old as it seems. RedHat backport a lot of updates from the later kernels into the current one and our latest is pretty much equivalent to 4.14, I believe, despite the numbering.
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    Thursday, October 31 2019, 06:53 PM - #Permalink
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    Gavin Meek wrote:

    Has anyone successfully installed ClearOS 7 on a Gigabyte GA-J3455N-D3H mini ITX motherboard?
    I'm attempting to install ClearOS 7 on this same motherboard without much success. It has an Intel Apollo Lake Celeron J3455 processor.
    I've attempted the install both from a USB key and a DVD.
    The install is always very slow and it seems to hang up at random points but most commonly at 'Starting Network Manager' or 'Starting Login Service' My most recent attempt it got as far as the installer screen with the green options bar along the bottom but this eventually went to a blank screen and hung there.
    I've tried hitting TAB at the ClearOS boot screen and adding 'vga=normal' and also 'apci=off' but neither seems to have helped improve the random hanging.

    Just as a further note the system has 2x 8GB memory sticks installed and a crucial ssd connected to SATA 0

    Many Thanks
    Gavin


    The distribution uses a very ancient kernel, Gigabyte GA-J3455N-D3H cannot boot on it. You need to install the operating system on another computer to update the kernel and then use the Gigabyte GA-J3455N-D3H. For the system to work fully, I use the kernel-4.19.81 kernel.
    Here is the kernel I use:
    yum install https://snuglinux.pp.ua/clearos/repo/kernel-4.19.81-1.x86_64.rpm
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    Thursday, May 09 2019, 10:28 AM - #Permalink
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    Can I suggest googling "J3455 centos". It looks like there have been issues. Suggestions are to disable c-states in the BIOS and get the most up-to-date kernel possible. This will mean installing from a 7.6 ISO, not 7.5. I don't know when you downloaded, but the latest ISO can be obtained from here.

    If you do get it going, you can investigate using the latest kernel from ElRepo. If you do this and you want to use the Bandwidth/QoS app, you must manually turn on IFB in /etc/clearos/qos.conf. This is going to be preffed on anyway in an update next week for Comminuty versions more than 30 days after installation, otherwise it will happen after the 30 day period or when Home/Business gets updated, whichever is sooner.
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