[CentOS] Re: CentOS-5 Need Help With Serial Ports

Sat Dec 22 21:07:11 UTC 2007
Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com>

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, James B. Byrne wrote:

>> First stupid question by me :D
>>
>> 1.  Do you really need to be running xen?  (ie, are you doing a DomU
>> also on that machine)  If not, boot the real kernel and you will be set
>>  :D
>>
>
> There are no silly questions, only silly walks....
>
> No.  I do not require, or desire, a Xen VM or HVM machine.  This is what
> the install of CentOS-5 from CD gave me and as far as I can recall I did
> not have an option to do otherwise.  I will gladly boot to the "real"
> kernel to bypass this nonsense if some kind soul will tell me how to do
> this.  I do not see any non-xen images in /boot, how do I get them?

Most likely "yum install kernel" will get you a regular kernel. If you do
"yum list kernel\*" you will see a list of all of the available kernel packages.

>From there you can pick the one you want. Once you have the regular kernel
running I would do "yum erase kernel-xen" if you are not going to use the xen
stuff. Warning, only erase the xen kernel AFTER you have the machine running
the normal kernel, otherwise you will have a machine that will not boot.

In addition you should edit /etc/grub.conf to make the normal kernel the default.
That way you will not have to select it each time you reboot.

Regards,

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