Fedora 11 installation on Thinkpad X31- Unstable tsc

[Justin P. Mattock]

Nguyen Duy Phuong wrote:
> Hi Justin, thanks for your reply.
> Step 22: Reboot your computer and set your system BIOS boot priority 
> to boot from the USB stick
> This won't work as X31 does not support booting from usb flash drive, 
> which is specifically "excluded" in the BIOS boot list, only cdrom and 
> diskette connected to usb port are allowed. I have tried to use 
> liveusb-creator and unetin to do this, no result.
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> *From:* Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock at gmail.com>
> *To:* "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using 
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> *Sent:* Saturday, August 1, 2009 1:22:20 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Fedora 11 installation on Thinkpad X31- Unstable tsc
>
> 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 
> <mailto:justinmattock at gmail.com>>
> > *To:* "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using 
> Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com <mailto: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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> From what I remember I used this tutorial
> for my dell xp200 to boot the livecd to/from the usb
> to install the system(keep in mind it is ubuntu, but should help
> hopefully).
>
> http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-ubuntu-804-persistent-install-via-the-live-cd/
>
> Justin P. Mattock
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>
  If you have the usb 2.0 port then that should work,
the bios should give you an option to boot from usb first then
the hard drive
(but then again not sure what the hardware looks like).

Justin P. Mattock