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