[elrepo] Bug in kernel-ml.2.6.37 package?

Akemi Yagi toracat at elrepo.org
Thu Feb 3 18:38:42 EST 2011


On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Kenni Lund <kenni at kelu.dk> wrote:

>> Has anyone else tried to install the 2.6.37 kernel-ml package on a
>> stock install of CentOS 5.5 (with all updates), with no previous
>> kernel-ml packages and/or kmod-modules installed?
>
> Hi Kenni
>
> I have a vmware guest VM running stock CentOS 5.5 with _no_ kmods
> installed, so used this for testing.
>
> I yum installed kernel-ml-2.6.37-0.1.el5.elrepo.x86_64. It booted
> fine. The original install was default, which means /boot is on
> /dev/sda1 and / is on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 .
>
> At this moment I have no real iron that I can use for this kind of
> testing, but I can try with a KVM guest ( which is your "specialty"
> :-D ).

I've got a KVM guest which is running RHEL-5, all up to date, no
kmods. Installed kernel-ml-2.6.37-0.1.el5.elrepo.x86_64 using yum just
like before. No problem with booting. This system also has 'default'
partitions ( /boot is on /dev/vda1 and / is on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 ).

Akemi



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