On 8/17/20 7:05 PM, david wrote: > At 07:11 AM 8/17/2020, you wrote: >> On 8/13/20 11:23 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> > Hey All, >> > >> > Is it safe to allow the 193 series kernel update now? Last time I >> tried >> > that my system refused to boot. I had to roll back to the 4.18.0-147 >> > kernel to get my machine to reboot. >> > >> > Since that happened I've been watching this mail list for >> > acknowledgement that the problem has been corrected while refusing the >> > kernel update. I may have missed the announcement that the issue was >> > resolved and the the update is now approved. >> > >> >> It 'SHOULD' be good. We announced it over the same weekend it was >> broken. >> >> That does not mean every single combination of firmware, hardware, etc >> on every possible machine frm every manufacturer will work. But, we >> have had no reports of failure since the updates. > > > Ummmm.............. > > except for apple hardware. My Mac-mini runs just file as long as this > text: > exclude=grub2* shim* mokutil > is added to the end of the file /etc/yum.conf > > and executing > yum -y update > and rebooting works just fine. HOWEVER, if I remove that 'exclude' line > from yum.conf, run 'yum update', and then reboot, the system is > unbootable. I end up with a blank screen, no grub anything. I have > also been unable to recover from this. Therefore, that exclude line stays. > > I'm sorry about the delay in responding; I wanted to verify this on a > 'crash-and-burn' MacMini. > Sure, but Apple actively TRIES to prevent any install other than their software on Apple hardware. That is certainly not something we support. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20200821/49ab8576/attachment-0004.sig>