I wanted to run sl6 on a non-pae laptop using the ELRepo nonpae ml kernel, and thought that it might work to run the livecd-creator script with Urs Beyerle's sl6rolling-livedvd.ks kickstart file, just editing sl6rolling-live-base.ks to include the elrepo-kernel repository and changing the name of the "kernel" package to "kernel-ml-NONPAE". I'm pleased to report that this does in fact work; at least the resulting iso boots and starts up normally - I haven't tested it extensively.

However, even without a mention of the ordinary sl6 kernel, the script installs the most recent one from sl-security and constructs a rather confusing boot menu with four separate kernel entries all labelled nonpae, some of which try to boot the standard pae kernel. This isn't fatal, but it's a bit messy.

Can anyone suggest a way of getting the script to not install the standard kernel, or at least to label the boot menu entries in a more informative way?

Stephen Isard

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