[PlanetCCRMA] redhat trouble with grub

Noah Garrett Wallach logic@enabled.com
Fri Oct 1 08:20:01 2004


On 30 Sep 2004 13:37:06 -0700, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 13:25, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
> > > I see. Kernels (and all other Planet CCRMA / RedHat packages) are
> > > installed using rpm (RedHat Package Manager) and that is what you could
> > > use to erase them, "rm" operates on files only.
> > > 
> > > To find which packages you actually have installed that match the kernel
> > > you want:
> > > 
> > > rpm -q -a | grep 2.4.20-31.1
> > >
> > > [MUNCH]
> > >
> > thanks so much for your assistance.  I was able to get the CCRMA kernel
> > installed just fine now.  I see its been added to the grub.conf.  When booting
> > with Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrmasmp) kernel -
> > I finding the broadcom corp NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet card is being
> > asked to be removed and it appears that I dont have networking capabilities.
> 
> Sigh. Probably an additional driver that redhat adds to the 
> enterprise kernel but is not available in the "normal" redhat 
> kernel. Probably the easiest fix (of course not "easy" for everyone) 
> would be to rebuilt the enterprise kernel itself with the 
> capabilities patch.
> 
> Have you tried to non-redhat Planet CCRMA kernel? (based currently on
> 2.4.26).
> 


hi fernando!

okay I will try that.  can you please tell me how I find the sources for the
2.4.26 kernel and point me to a tutorial on how to build from the sources and
incoporate the capabilities patch.


> > swap space is not mountable since the drive devices are different.  should I
> > change /dev/sda3 to /dev/hdc3 or is there a way to use a different /etc/fstab
> > depending on the kernel I am loading?
> 
> I'm afraid only one fstab is all you have :-)
> 
> One solution that occurs to me is that you could another swap entry
> pointing to the new location of swap. One or the other will be 
> ignored depending on which kernel you boot.



this appears to be working.  thanks for all you assistance.

cheers,

noah


> 
> -- Fernando
> 
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