On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 17:10 -0800, MHR wrote:
On Jan 25, 2008 8:52 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@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.
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
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I think the next entry in this thread w/b a discovered solution. I'm fresh out of pertinent ideas for now.
HTH