[CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

fred smith wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:18:26AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
>> At Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:24:19 -0400 CentOS mailing list
>> <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:41:31PM -0500, Larry Vaden wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM, fred smith
>> > > <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
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> drive when the timeout gets too long. There's apparently a WD utility
> (these are WD drives) to change a setting for that (the utility is
> wdtler.exe and the drive property is called TLER) which allegedly solves
> the problem. Other posters have pointed out that the newer drives OF THE
> SAME MODEL no longer let you set that. I haven't yet had the chance to
> find out if my drives allow it to be changed or not, but since they're
> somewhat over a year old I'm hopeful. Soon, I hope.  Looks like I need
> to find a way to make a DOS bootable floppy (then add a floppy drive to
> the machine) so I can boot it up and give it a try.
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a) Try contacting WD, and ask them what they have for Linux for this
purpose, and
b) FreeDos.

           mark