Many thanks, Jean-Philippe!
Have you tried with last Centos 6.8 or 6.9 DVD ?
Good point! I made a quick check with both a CentOS 6.8 as well as 7.3 DVD: no success booting in UEFI mode. So no wonder why i does not work with SME.
Have you tried the SME 9.2 iso ?
Yes, the result is negative for UEFI mode as well.
I believe we lack people with UEFI only hardware to test the SME iso.
This is my first UEFI machine as well :-} And offering help here does not make too much sense, at least at the moment, if upstream CentOS does not support it...
Sad to hear it is slow in legacy bios mod... This could be either because of not supported cPU by red hat or becaue of the legacy mode ( seen this problem with legacy pata mode with sata)
Could be, I had the same idea as well, so I wanted to check an installation in UEFI mode, result as above :-}
What I find though is this post
https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=60018#p253792 So I just tried to add
mce=off
to /boot/grub/grub.conf . Although I do not understand all the details, I have the impression that the machine speed is a bit faster, especially the weird keyboard delay is much better now.
/boot/grub/grub.conf is probably updated with any kernel update, right? Is it the right thing to prepare a custom template /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/boot/grub/grub.conf with the two lines
mce=off
timeout=10
The second line is just for convenience, because my VGA display needs quite a moment to sync, and often the Grub screen is hardly visible or even unvisible...
Thank you,
turandot