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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?ta831 .

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

8 thoughts on - AMD Ryzen And CentOS

  • 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.

    —– | 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?ta831 .
    |
    | 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
    |
    |
    |
    |

  • James A. Peltier wrote:

    I’ve installed CentOS 7 with the latest kernel from elrepo (4.11.8), and I can’t get Grub to install. I think I’ll have to conclude that it really doesn’t work with Ryzen. :-(

    Debian seems to work, so I’ll try it for a while.

    Yves Bellefeuille

  • I have a Desktop system With both CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 on it, and it works fine with my Ryzen 1700X cpu.

    CentOS 6 preexisten on the system before I upgraded it to Ryzen, CentOS 7 was installed with Ryzen. Never had any problems.

    Allan.

  • Allan wrote:

    I’ve tried reinstalling CentOS 6 from scratch, and it worked. :-) I
    supposed I installed or modified something at some point that Ryzen didn’t like.

    Thanks!

    Yves Bellefeuille

  • If you buy me one, I’ll create an installer that works for it :)

    Seriously though, I can regenerate an installer for ryzen if you find that a newer regular kernel works but the original one does not.

  • I’ve install CentOS 7.3 on an AMD Ryzen PC and its been up and running for a day with no issues, no hangs, etc. Lovin it!

    CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)
    kernel-3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64
    ASUS X370-PRO MB
    Architecture: x86_64
    CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
    Byte Order: Little Endian
    CPU(s): 16
    On-line CPU(s) list: 0-15
    Thread(s) per core: 2
    Core(s) per socket: 8
    Socket(s): 1
    NUMA node(s): 1
    Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
    CPU family: 23
    Model: 1
    Model name: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core Processor
    Stepping: 1
    CPU MHz: 2200.000
    BogoMIPS: 7684.99
    Virtualization: AMD-V
    L1d cache: 32K
    L1i cache: 64K
    L2 cache: 512K
    L3 cache: 8192K
    NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-15

  • Thanks Ron, you answered my one BIG question: Will CentOS 7.4 run on ASUS X370-PRO MB with a Ryzen 1800X CPU. I’ve don’t a spec sheet for a friend but have found very little info on this combination. Did you have any problems during either the install, or after getting it to boot?? Things that might throw a monkey wrench into the works?