bckwalton
May 15th, 2016, 05:26 PM
Backstory: I've had this laptop for a few days now and I told myself that I would stick with windows for as long as I can (usually I jump over to some flavor of Linux immediately) to see how the other side lives. Well, after finally getting annoyed with Windows 10's surprise updates, I noted that there was nothing I was doing on Windows that I couldn't do in Linux. So I decided to jump ship, I heard good things about Elementary OS so I thought I would try that. I downloaded the 64-bit ISO and flashed it to a Flash drive with RUFUS and restarted. I had my PC in Legacy Boot support so it loaded the flash drive immediately. I selected try and then the logo froze. I restarted and tried it again but pressed f1 so I could see the outputs. It quickly flashed super suspicious text and started stating "BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 25s!" I was spooked so I decided to see if it was the ISO. It passed a hash check so I figured it was the OS, and decided to try old faithful (Ubuntu), It ran into the same error. I tried Nomodeset to no avail.
Issue: I am unable to install any version of Linux do to a "BUG: soft lockup -CPU#(It varies) stuck for (also varies)!" or at least I believe that to be the issue. I've tried Ubuntu, ElementaryOS, and Mint. All failed in similar fashions. I'm at my wits end with this I've tested every ISO to verify their integrity, I've used Rufus, UNetbootin, UUI and they all created a bootable drive that inevitably failed.
Laptops Specs:
Processor: FX-8800p
Graphics: Radeon R7
Storage: 256GB Sandisk SSD
RAM: 6GB Hynix (4GB + 2GB)
A bit of Intel I've gathered on the matter: Apparently the Carrizo APUs are in various stages of being supported by the Linux Kernel and not, but I heard this information from Forums that are almost a year old now. Has the situation changed? Is there a way to triage this issue? Do I have no idea what I'm talking about :confused:
Issue: I am unable to install any version of Linux do to a "BUG: soft lockup -CPU#(It varies) stuck for (also varies)!" or at least I believe that to be the issue. I've tried Ubuntu, ElementaryOS, and Mint. All failed in similar fashions. I'm at my wits end with this I've tested every ISO to verify their integrity, I've used Rufus, UNetbootin, UUI and they all created a bootable drive that inevitably failed.
Laptops Specs:
Processor: FX-8800p
Graphics: Radeon R7
Storage: 256GB Sandisk SSD
RAM: 6GB Hynix (4GB + 2GB)
A bit of Intel I've gathered on the matter: Apparently the Carrizo APUs are in various stages of being supported by the Linux Kernel and not, but I heard this information from Forums that are almost a year old now. Has the situation changed? Is there a way to triage this issue? Do I have no idea what I'm talking about :confused: