Hi Keith, thanks for your detailed reply. I haven't tried this yet..
What I have done is follow this tutorial to build the latest kernel
(http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel) which in the end game me
an rpm of it for installation however when it came to install the rpm
the follow was displayed;
package kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64 is already installed
file /boot/.vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.hmac from install of
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64
file /boot/System.map-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 from install of
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64
file /boot/config-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 from install of
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64
file /boot/symvers-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.gz from install of
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64
file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 from install of
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.x86_64
However none of these files exist in /boot?
[nf5002@eros ~]$ ls -la /boot
total 5727
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Aug 9 12:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Aug 9 11:46 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62395 Jun 11 2008 config-2.6.18-92.el5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 9 11:34 grub
-rw------- 1 root root 2544058 Oct 27 2008 initrd-2.6.18-92.el5.img
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Oct 27 2008 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80032 Nov 22 2007 message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92749 Jun 11 2008 symvers-2.6.18-92.el5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1162656 Jun 11 2008 System.map-2.6.18-92.el5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1859484 Jun 11 2008 vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.el5
This must some how relate to the fact the boot is on a different
device, so where does CentOS think /boot is? I mean, the system is
booting, has been for a few years so its working? If I unmount /boot I
can't ls /boot, its empty?
[nf5002@eros ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 28G 8.3G 18G 33% /
/dev/sdb1 119M 12M 103M 10% /boot
/dev/sda2 is a 3.3TB ext4 partition, so /dev/sda uses GPT hence /boot
being on a seperate device.
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Regards,
James.
http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/
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