Thanks a lot. I'm in. I reinstalled distro and vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 kernel booted.
Much appreciated. John On 10/9/07 2:59 PM, "Jarod Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Laity wrote: >> Jarod thanks. >> >> I am actually triple booting with Mac OS and Vista as well. Unfortunately I >> need Vista for a few things in my work, but moving away as much as possible. >> For this setup, from what I read (and experienced), I need and MBR and the >> A20 Gate issue is unavoidable (of course I could be wrong). I am booting >> from hd(0,2). > > Ah, including vista in the mix certainly could complicate things. > Haven't touched vista outside of poking at it for a few minutes on > laptops at the local electronics superstore (and being aghast at how > slow a core 2 duo system could be made to feel). I only bother with Mac > OS X and Linux. :) > >> AS for the kernel version, I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I used that >> name and no boot. I get "file not found". Is is still "vmlinuz-2.6.18xxxxx? >> I could not find the package on CD. Well I found he rpm, but that doesn't >> specify the actual name does it? Sorry if my questions are naive. > > The kernel package version matches the version in the vmlinuz and > initrd. So for example, kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.i686.rpm lays down > vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 and initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img. > > >> On 10/9/07 2:01 PM, "Jarod Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> John Laity wrote: >>>> I have installed rhel v5 on my iMac (replacing v4 WS). Since Macs have an >>>> A20 gate legacy issue which prevent normal booting using GRUB at stage 2, >>>> initial booting requires eltorito via a CD. >>> Uh... What? >>> >>> My iMac (2GHz core duo) boots via grub just like any other x86 box... >>> (well, when installed to a partition rather than the mbr, and called >>> from efi's legacy boot emulation)... >>> >>>> For this I need to know the >>>> exact filename of the kernel and initrd image files to complete my menu.lst >>>> (see example below): >>>> >>>> >>>> root (hd0,1) >>>> kernel / kernel-2.6.18-8xxxxxx root=/dev/sda3 ro >>>> initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8xxxxxx.img >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I downloaded the rhel distro yesterday (2007-10-8) so I need these most >>>> recent versions. >>> 2.6.18-8.el5 is still what's on the 5.0 isos no matter when you >>> downloaded 'em. I believe 2.6.18-52.el5 is on the latest 5.1 RC isos, if >>> you're talking about those instead. Just pop the CD into a different >>> machine and look at what kernel package is on it, that'll tell you for >>> certain. > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
