On 4/16/11 2:25 PM, Nicolas Ross wrote: > >> If it is the classic stack of firewire drivers that are required, and >> there is nothing else needed from the centosplus kernel, a good >> solution is to get the kABI-tracking firewire modules from ELRepo: >> >> http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=kmod-ieee1394 >> >> It provides: >> >> dv1394.ko >> eth1394.ko >> ieee1394.ko >> ohci1394.ko >> pcilynx.ko >> raw1394.ko >> sbp2.ko >> video1394.ko >> >> Because they survive kernel updates transparently and you can run the >> distro kernel, there will be no "waiting" for each kernel update. > That is indeed what I need, I use ieee1394, raw1394 and sbp2 to access > my 2tb firewire external drive that is used for backup rotation. > > I will try that on monday. Yum shouldn't have deleted your running kernel in the update. It should just be a matter of changing the default to boot in the grub config if you want to run the old one a while longer. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com