[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 Public QA: CentOSPlus kernel available for testing

Fri Jun 27 15:32:10 UTC 2014
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Christoph.Galuschka
<tigalch at tigalch.org> wrote:
>> Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> hat am 25. Juni 2014 um 22:24 geschrieben:
>>
>> Feedback greatly appreciated. Happy testing!
>>
>> Akemi
>
> I installed kernel-plus on a ESXi VM (minimal install,1 vCPU, 2GB RAM)
> running in EFI mode. So far so good, the machine rebooted fine and showed
> the plus-kernel as default kernel in the boot prompt.
> [root at localhost ~]# uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 3.10.0-123.el7.centos.plus.x86_64
> As the minimal install does not install upstream vmware-tools, I did that by
> hand with the ESXi-supplied tools - working fine.
>
> After removing the plus packages, I found nothing left in /lib/modules:
> [root at localhost modules]# pwd
> /lib/modules
> [root at localhost modules]# ls -al
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root 4096 Jun 27 16:25 .
> dr-xr-xr-x. 48 root root 4096 Jun 26 12:59 ..
> drwxr-xr-x.  6 root root 4096 Jun 27 16:20 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64
>
> What remained behind was
> /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-123.el7.centos.plus.x86_64kdump.img
> Didn't find anything else from the plus kernel left in /boot (for both the
> BIOS installation, and the EFI-installation).

Thanks, Christoph, for the report.

I, too, have seen that kdump.img file left behind. Don't know if it's
a bug or a feature.

Akemi