[CentOS] Question about CentOS 6 installation setup

Tue Jul 26 16:01:14 UTC 2011
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 7/26/2011 10:46 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Mark<mhullrich at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> When I created a CentOS VM (using VMWare WorkStation), I installed
>> with the first DVD, and the disk partitioning and installation was all
>> done automatically with almost no input required from me.
>>
>> The problem with this is that the /boot partition was too small (under
>> 50MB) and I couldn't update the kernel (it blew out with a grubby
>> error, which I did not recognize - separate thread on that).
>>
>> Is this a manifestation of using VMWare for the VM platform, or is
>> this "normal" for a 6.0 installation or what?
>
> I have reported the problem to VMware:
>
> http://communities.vmware.com/thread/309617

Is this an artifact of offsetting the start of a partition for block 
alignment after already computing the desired space?

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   Les Mikesell
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