Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-04-02 Thread Sam Beam
On Wednesday 02 April 2008 01:07, Les Mikesell wrote: > First cut - in your recovery shell, comment out /home from /etc/fstab > and see if you can come up without it (log in as root, of course).  That > will at least give you a fairly normal environment to try to figure out > why the md1 device is

Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-04-01 Thread Sam Beam
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 15:03, Les Mikesell wrote: > > maybe that is why the system won't boot anymore after I synced the root > > partition? ;) > > > > I hope... > > If you are booting a kernel that can't find your root partition, the > initrd might be the problem.   There are several other thing

Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-04-01 Thread Sam Beam
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Sam Beam wrote on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 01:45:28 -0400: > > OK sorry to hammer the list but one more question - having almost got the > > drives mirrored and happy - since I have created a custom initrd that has > > the raid1 dr

[CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-03-31 Thread Sam Beam
OK sorry to hammer the list but one more question - having almost got the drives mirrored and happy - since I have created a custom initrd that has the raid1 drivers in it, do I now have to tell yum to ignore kernel updates? Will the stock kernel render me unbootable? Actually I am not 100% sur

[CentOS] RAID1 migration - /dev/md1 is not there

2008-03-31 Thread Sam Beam
I am trying to convert an existing IDE one-disk system to RAID1 using the general strategy found here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-March/003813.html But I am stuck on one thing - when I went to create the second md device with mdadm, # mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --rai

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-03-31 Thread Sam Beam
On Monday 31 March 2008 14:02, Ned Slider wrote: > Sam Beam wrote: > > what is the best way to install the closed-source drivers? direct from > > nvidia? recomplile them? Is there some gap between updates kernel and the > > atrpms modules? > > Hi Sam, > > I wou

[CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-03-31 Thread Sam Beam
Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna nvidia RPMs So I looked around and it seemed like the ATRpms repo via yum was t