[SOLVED] CentOS 7.0 on Intel NUC

[Jasont]

Another option is to disable power management in the BIOS. This is probably the simplest way to do it.

Jason

[slacka]

With ASRock Q1900-ITX Intel Celeron J1900 I also had trouble installing.
First 2 attempts to make boot disks failed. UNetbootin and Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.5.9 both froze when I tried to install. Finally was able to install with image made with Rufus. Now on boot get a

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Fast TSC calibration failed

[dan_linder]

For what it's worth, I had the same problem with my NUC5i5RYB and BIOS version 0358 (latest as of June 2016 I believe). I was booting off of a USB stick (using either UNetbootin or YUMI), but neither worked.

I stumbled across another forum post where they mentioned that the CentOS 7 DVD iso image worked best when it was written to the USB stick using "dd".

On a second Linux machine I plugged in my USB stick, checked the tail of the output of dmesg ("dmesg | tail -15") and saw it was at /dev/sdb so I ran this command:

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sudo dd if=CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 ; sync ; sync ; echo Done

I booted from this USB stick and it worked.

Thought I'd post this here in case it helps anyone else.

[TrevorH]

Both unetbootin and yumi are known to be broken tools for this purpose and should not be used.