[CentOS] Re: Problem installing the 53.1.6 kernel

On Jan 26, 2008 7:27 AM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>
> That's because LFS was first on that machine and when I added CentOS, I
> just followed form.
>
It turns out that /boot/grub/menu.lst is just a symbolic link to
/boot/grub/grub.conf on CentOS 5.  Your use of LFS first probably
makes a difference there....

> 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.

Other than the need for a self-signed certificate exception, this
looks promising.  I'll try it.

> 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
>
I didn't see anything on the man page that would inspire me to set or
change these.  The kernelpkgnames in particular is obsolete as of yum
2.1 and we're up to 3.0.5....

It was an interesting read, though.  :-)

mhr