[CentOS] Re: Problem installing the 53.1.6 kernel
William L. Maltby
CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Sat Jan 26 15:27:13 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 17:10 -0800, MHR wrote:
> 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).
That's because LFS was first on that machine and when I added CentOS, I
just followed form.
>
> 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.
Hmmm... There should be a reduced workload available here, via either
dkms or weak-modules.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules # dkms Item 2
# In a thread starting here
# http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-September/086285.html
# But getting really interesting here, weak-modules looks peachy
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-September/086640.html
>
> 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....
I went and searched the YUM lists this A.M. Some promising threads, but
they were old and the mentioned classes and modules don't exist anymore.
But I see that Seth Vidal seems to be quite responsive there. I'm out of
ideas, except to get the yum code or go to the yum list(s). I bet
they'll have the answer in short order.
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
>From that screen, "yum" looks like the user support list.
In the "man yum.conf", I see a couple of options that I wonder if they
may be having an effect, since you are making a custom kernel. Not sure,
but I'll mention them.
installonlypkgs
kernelpkgnames
>
> Thanks, all, especially Bill!
NP. As time available allows, I like to reciprocate. Just wish I knew
more detail to start with.
>
> mhr
> <snip sig stuff>
I think the next entry in this thread w/b a discovered solution. I'm
fresh out of pertinent ideas for now.
HTH
--
Bill
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