Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to 2.6.32

2010-05-02 Thread maillists0
>libtool, libudev, mcelog, nash,udev,usbutils and hal also have to be updated to get the whole thing working... That is exactly the kind of info I was looking for. Thanks. dag, thanks for the article. I'm tempted to rebuild a 2.6.18 kernel without the patches that disable fs-cache. It's hard to t

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to 2.6.32

2010-05-01 Thread maillists0
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:51 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:44:49PM -0400, maillis...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I was wondering whether the standard "make oldconfig" would work when > making > > a version jump this large. Are my drivers likely to break? > > *All*

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to 2.6.32

2010-05-01 Thread maillists0
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:28 PM, wrote: > > I want to upgrade a 5.4 box with the 2.618 kernel to a shiny new 2.6.32 > > kernel. Anyone done it? Is it possible? Are there gotcha's to watch out > for? > > > > Any advice is appreciated. A link to

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to 2.6.32

2010-05-01 Thread maillists0
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > maillis...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I want to upgrade a 5.4 box with the 2.618 kernel to a shiny new 2.6.32 >> kernel. Anyone done it? Is it possible? Are there gotcha's to watch out for? >> > So why not try RHEL v6 beta? > >> >> Any advice is appre

[CentOS] Upgrading to 2.6.32

2010-05-01 Thread maillists0
I want to upgrade a 5.4 box with the 2.618 kernel to a shiny new 2.6.32 kernel. Anyone done it? Is it possible? Are there gotcha's to watch out for? Any advice is appreciated. A link to a decent howto would be awesome. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] Using ramdisks on CentOS

2009-07-22 Thread maillists0
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Marko A. Jennings < marko...@bluegargoyle.com> wrote: > On Wed, July 22, 2009 4:46 pm, maillis...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm running the 2.6 xen kernel on CentOS 5.3. My goal is to use > > larger-than-normal ramdisks. > > tmpfs will do that for you: http://en.wikiped

[CentOS] Using ramdisks on CentOS

2009-07-22 Thread maillists0
I'm running the 2.6 xen kernel on CentOS 5.3. My goal is to use larger-than-normal ramdisks. I can see that the rd module is statically compiled into this kernel, so I tried passing the option ramdisk_size=262144 during boot, but dmesg shows that it gets reset to 16384K. I can also see that this is