[CentOS] Re: Problem installing the 53.1.6 kernel

[MHR]

On Jan 25, 2008 8:52 AM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>
> URL below is to my 5.x (modified by me) and my 4.x (box stock with
> normal updates). Maybe something visual will spark a clue? It often does
> for me.
>
> GOTCHAS: *leading whitespace are TABS! This bites me a lot of times.
>
> http://www.pastebin.org/16939
>

Nothing leaps out at me, except that your 5.x menu.lst doesn't have
the leading tabs from your 4.x grub.conf (and mine does, as the two
are identical on my box).

I haven't modified either grub.conf or menu.lst at all - when a new
kernel comes out, I install it (via yum update), boot from it,
download the kernel source (most recently from
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/updates/SRPMS/), enable NTFS as a
module with read/write add-ons, build the kernel, install the kernel,
kernel-devel and kernel-headers rpms and go.

This time, since the yum installation failed, I built my NTFS 53.1.6
kernel while still running the 53.1.4 kernel, but neither one
installed.

On a hunch, I rebooted the straight 53.1.4 kernel and had no problems
getting yum to update the kernel (whew!).  I was also able to install
my 53.1.6 kernel with NTFS support, and am now running it.

Odd that I had trouble with that one item on 53.1.4 w/NTFS....

More to come (new threads) - other problems I've been seeing lately....

Thanks, all, especially Bill!

mhr