Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of KM > Sent: den 10 oktober 2017 21:06 > To: centos@centos.org; Phil Perry > Subject: Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small > > Do i need to do something special or is it as easy as: > -

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of KM > Sent: den 10 oktober 2017 15:55 > To: CentOS Mailing List > Subject: [CentOS] /boot partition too small > > First off - let me say I am not an administrator. I need to know if

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/10/2017 6:50 PM, John R Pierce wrote: Your root filesystem is in an LVM volume. CentOS 6 is still using GRUB legacy, which does not support /boot in LVM. says up there, /boot is /dev/sda1, this is almost exactly the config of my C6 servers. never mind, I realized after I sent

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/10/2017 6:20 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Filesystem Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_bldsrv-lv_root     50G   26G   22G  55% / tmpfs 9.0G  156K  9.0G   1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1  96M   33M   59M  36% /boot

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Robert Nichols
On 10/10/2017 09:53 AM, KM wrote: Thanks for all of the input, not really sure what if anything I will do.  i was hoping it would be easy and i could just create a /boot in root, and copy the actual boot contents to it and use it.   wishful thinking i guess.  just to give a complete picture

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread m . roth
KM wrote: > Thanks for all of the input, not really sure what if anything I will do.  > i was hoping it would be easy and i could just create a /boot in root, > and copy the actual boot contents to it and use it.   wishful thinking i > guess.  just to give a complete picture here is the current

Re: [CentOS-virt] kernel-plus PXE virt-install with Xen?

2017-10-10 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/10/2017 01:46 PM, PJ Welsh wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to replace the vmlinuz and initrd.img from > CentOS 7.4 with "fixed" kernel-plus versions in order create CentOS 7.4 > VM's. So far I'm stuck booting via 7.3 install, adding new kernel-plus > and upgrading to 7.4. I've not

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
KM wrote: > Do i need to do something special or is it as easy as: > - save the contents of the current /boot - umount /boot and change > the /etc/fstab so it doesn't mount again-  create a boot directory > that is in the root filesystem- copy the contents back You'll also

Re: [CentOS] yum security update issue

2017-10-10 Thread Johnny Hughes
I have no idea how that script works (not maintained by CentOS Project) .. BUT .. If it does not also look at the CR announce list, it will miss those. We do not double annonuce: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/ (August 2017 and September 2017 were for the updates

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread KM
Do i need to do something special or is it as easy as: - save the contents of the current /boot - umount /boot and change the /etc/fstab so it doesn't mount again-  create a boot directory that is in the  root  filesystem- copy the contents back I realize the physical/current /boot will be a

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Alice Wonder
On 10/10/2017 07:04 AM, Vanhorn, Mike wrote: If there are many old kernels in there, you can probably remove the oldest one(s) to make room for newer ones. This is what I do. When /boot hits about 80% I go through and remove old kernels I will never boot into anyway. Usually that's at four

[CentOS-virt] kernel-plus PXE virt-install with Xen?

2017-10-10 Thread PJ Welsh
I'm trying to figure out how to replace the vmlinuz and initrd.img from CentOS 7.4 with "fixed" kernel-plus versions in order create CentOS 7.4 VM's. So far I'm stuck booting via 7.3 install, adding new kernel-plus and upgrading to 7.4. I've not found any complete Google answers and was looking

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Phil Perry
On 10/10/17 15:27, John Hodrien wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Pete Biggs wrote: No, you can't do that. /boot is special and needs to be a separate partition. Needs is a bit strong, as grub2 does support LVM.  It's not a supported configuration for Redhat. I'm not a sure there's a lot to it

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
KM wrote: > if it's not easy to actually increase it, It's possible to resize partitions. I use System Rescue CD, http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/ -- Yves Bellefeuille ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Flame war police

2017-10-10 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Tue, October 10, 2017 10:22 am, Mark Haney wrote: > On 10/10/2017 11:03 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: >> Hiya everyone, >> >> Is there a way to disable a thread that has degenerated into flaming? >> The >> recent "discussion" on /var/run descended into some quite nasty places >> and >> perhaps a

Re: [CentOS] Flame war police

2017-10-10 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 10.10.2017 um 17:03 schrieb Andrew Holway : > Is there a way to disable a thread that has degenerated into flaming? The > recent "discussion" on /var/run descended into some quite nasty places and > perhaps a lid should have been put on it. This seems to happen every

Re: [CentOS] Flame war police

2017-10-10 Thread Mark Haney
On 10/10/2017 11:03 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: Hiya everyone, Is there a way to disable a thread that has degenerated into flaming? The recent "discussion" on /var/run descended into some quite nasty places and perhaps a lid should have been put on it. This seems to happen every few weeks and is

Re: [CentOS] Flame war police

2017-10-10 Thread Giles Coochey
On 10/10/2017 16:03, Andrew Holway wrote: Hiya everyone, Is there a way to disable a thread that has degenerated into flaming? The recent "discussion" on /var/run descended into some quite nasty places and perhaps a lid should have been put on it. This seems to happen every few weeks and is

[CentOS] Flame war police

2017-10-10 Thread Andrew Holway
Hiya everyone, Is there a way to disable a thread that has degenerated into flaming? The recent "discussion" on /var/run descended into some quite nasty places and perhaps a lid should have been put on it. This seems to happen every few weeks and is somewhat embarrassing when I'm trying to

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread KM
Thanks for all of the input, not really sure what if anything I will do.  i was hoping it would be easy and i could just create a /boot in root, and copy the actual boot contents to it and use it.   wishful thinking i guess.  just to give a complete picture here is the current partitioning on

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:36:16AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 10 October 2017 at 09:55, KM wrote: > > First off - let me say I am not an administrator. I need to know if there > > is an easy way to increase my /boot partition. When I installed CentOS 6 > >

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 10 October 2017 at 09:55, KM wrote: > First off - let me say I am not an administrator. I need to know if there > is an easy way to increase my /boot partition. When I installed CentOS 6 > after running 5, it was my oversight not to increase the /boot size. it's > too

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Pete Biggs wrote: No, you can't do that. /boot is special and needs to be a separate partition. Needs is a bit strong, as grub2 does support LVM. It's not a supported configuration for Redhat. I'm not a sure there's a lot to it beyond having the lvm module loaded in

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread KM
Here is my current info, should have increased it to like 500M or so at least. Filesystem Size  Used   Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/sda1   96M   33M   59M  36%   /boot ls /boot config-2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 efi grub initramfs-2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64.img initrd-2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64kdump.img

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, KM wrote: Thanks for the idea.  I've already restricted it to one kernel.  so this will not help me. And did you also delete the rescue kernel/image from /boot? jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread KM
Thanks for the idea.  I've already restricted it to one kernel.  so this will not help me. On ‎Tuesday‎, ‎October‎ ‎10‎, ‎2017‎ ‎10‎:‎04‎:‎56‎ ‎AM, Vanhorn, Mike wrote: If there are many old kernels in there, you can probably remove the oldest one(s)

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 13:55 +, KM wrote: > First off - let me say I am not an administrator. I need to know if > there is an easy way to increase my /boot partition. When I > installed CentOS 6 after running 5, it was my oversight not to > increase the /boot size. it's too small and I

Re: [CentOS] Lock-up during boot when Logitech unifying receiver is connected (UEFI problem?)

2017-10-10 Thread Steven Tardy
> On Oct 10, 2017, at 5:39 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: > > If this unit (a small USB thingummy) is connected when I try to boot the > system, it locks up completely. I’ve seen USB power draw be an issue similar to this previously. Does the same problem occur if connected

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
If there are many old kernels in there, you can probably remove the oldest one(s) to make room for newer ones. I've run into problems where the yum update didn't work because there wasn't enough room in /boot; my notes for updating now include removing old kernels first before running updates.

[CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread KM
First off - let me say I am not an administrator.   I need to know if there is an easy way to increase my /boot partition.  When I installed CentOS 6 after running 5, it was my oversight not to increase the /boot size.  it's too small and I can't do yum updates. if it's not easy to actually

[CentOS] yum security update issue

2017-10-10 Thread Thomas Roth
Hi all, I have used http://cefs.steve-meier.de/ plus https://github.com/vmfarms/generate_updateinfo to insert some security-information into my os-updates - mirror. This seems to work, but only partially. On my 7.4 test server, > yum --security -v check-update gives me dnsmasq, nss,

[CentOS] Small GRUB screen (menu/splash image)

2017-10-10 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, After moving my CentOS 6 installation over to a new PC, the GRUB start-up screen looks a bit strange. On the old machine, the menu area and splash image would cover the entire screen, but now they occupy only a small rectangle in its centre. I think what happens is that the max

Re: [CentOS-es] OT Imagen de disco

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[CentOS] Lock-up during boot when Logitech unifying receiver is connected (UEFI problem?)

2017-10-10 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, I've got a bit of an issue after I switched to a new laptop for my CentOS 6.9 installation: I'm using a Logitech cordless keyboard and mouse that communicate with the system via a so-called "unifying receiver". If this unit (a small USB thingummy) is connected when I try to boot the