[PlanetCCRMA] redhat trouble with grub

[Noah Garrett Wallach]

> 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
> 
> (rpm -q -a lists all packages installed, grep filters the ones that
> match the string that follows).
> 
> That should list a bunch of packages, at least the kernel itself and 
> the alsa driver kernel modules packages specific to that kernel.
> 
> To erase them do:
> 
> rpm -e --nodeps kernel-... alsa-driver-...
> (replace the kernel- and alsa-driver- with the ones listed in the
> previous command).
> 
> Now, I'm using the "--nodeps" option which you normally don't want to
> use because other installed packages in Planet CCRMA rely on having the
> alsa driver installed. If you try to erase without --deps rpm will
> complain. But using it means we leave the dependencies "broken" (that
> is, there is a package needed by other packages that is not 
> installed). To reinstall the kernel and fix things you will need to 
> do a:
> 
> apt-get -f install
> 
> That should reinstall the missing packages. 
> Save the output so that we know what happened...


fernando,

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.

and 

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?

--- current /etc/fstab ---

[root at dhcp-183-1-168-192 root]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/sda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

--- snip ---

but the device names are:

---- snip ---

[root at dhcp-183-1-168-192 etc]# cat /root/it2
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc2            151723100   5329644 138686276   4% /
/dev/hdc1               101089     45959     49911  48% /boot
none                    515120         0    515120   0% /dev/shm

--- snip ---


output from removal and reinstallation of the kernel

--- snip ---

[root at dhcp-183-1-168-192 boot]# rpm -q -a | grep 2.4.20-31.1
kernel-source-2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma
midishare-kernel-2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma-1.86-4.rh90.ccrma
midishare-kernel-smp-2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma-1.86-4.rh90.ccrma
[root at dhcp-183-1-168-192 boot]#
[root at dhcp-183-1-168-192 boot]# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  alsa-kernel-2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma
  alsa-kernel-smp-2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma kernel#2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma
  kernel-smp#2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  alsa-kernel-2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma
  alsa-kernel-smp-2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma kernel#2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma
  kernel-smp#2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 removed and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/31.1MB of archives.
After unpacking 72.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Executing RPM (-ivh)...
warning:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-smp#2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma_2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma_i686.rpm:
V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 68d9802a
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:kernel-smp             ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:kernel                 ########################################### [100%]
Executing RPM (-Uvh)...
warning:
/var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-kernel-2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma_1.0.4-1.cvs.rh90.ccrma_i686.rpm:
V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 68d9802a
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:alsa-kernel-2.4.20-31.1########################################### [ 50%]
   2:alsa-kernel-smp-2.4.20-########################################### [100%]
 
[root at dhcp-183-1-168-192 root]#

--- snip ---


cheers,

noah



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