Re: [CentOS] xfs question

2015-08-05 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 8/4/2015 12:47 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > Some older 32-bit software will likely have problems addressing any content | > outside of the 2^32 bit inode range. You will be able to see it, but | > reading and writing said data will likely be problematic | |

[CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive to boot. This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added Highpoint raid card which is used only for the two extra IDE ports. I have upgra

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.7 is released

2015-08-05 Thread Alan McKay
Any ETA on when CentOS 6.7 will exit the CR phase? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread m . roth
Bowie Bailey wrote: > I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able > to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive > to boot. > > This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added Highpoint > raid card which is used only for the two ext

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/5/2015 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive to boot. This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added Highpoint raid c

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: >> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able >> to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive >> to boot. >> >> This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added Highpoint >> raid card wh

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread m . roth
Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 8/5/2015 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able >>> to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive >>> to boot. >>> >>> This is an old system with only IDE p

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/5/2015 11:52 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive to boot. This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.7 is released

2015-08-05 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 05.08.2015 um 17:19 schrieb Alan McKay : > Any ETA on when CentOS 6.7 will exit the CR phase? fourth paragraph: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2015-July/153859.html -- LF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.o

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte physical sectors, but it's worth confirming you don't have such a drive because the current partition scheme you've

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. > > I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte > physical sectors, but it's worth confirming you don't

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/5/2015 12:34 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte physical sectors, but it's worth confirming you don't have such a drive

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/5/2015 12:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte physical sectors,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > On 8/5/2015 12:34 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> >>> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. >> >> I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > I tried 'smartctl -a' and 'hdparm -I', but I don't see anything about > Advanced Format. What am I looking for? # smartctl -i /dev/hdg | grep -i sector Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical That's what I get, but it's an SSD so it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/5/2015 1:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: How would I go about pointing it at the partition? What I am currently doing is this: device (hd0) /dev/hdg root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) setup (hd1,0) It's hd1 if your device map is correct and hdg is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 8/5/2015 1:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Bowie Bailey >> wrote: >>> >>> How would I go about pointing it at the partition? >>> >>> What I am currently doing is this: >>> device (hd0) /dev/hdg >>> root (h

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Murphy
Please, download this. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/ Run it: http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/ Post a URL to the resulting file somewhere. I suggest having the entire computer assembled as it should be in normal use, rather than simulating device failure by removing a devic

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/5/2015 1:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Please, download this. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/ Run it: http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/ Post a URL to the resulting file somewhere. I suggest having the entire computer assembled as it should be in normal use, rather than si

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Murphy
- Ahh OK now I see why I was confused. The originally posted partition map uses cylinders as units, not LBA. I missed that. Cylinder 1 is the same as LBA 63. And that is sufficiently large for a GRUB legacy stage 2. - OK this is screwy. Partitions 1 and 3 on both drives have the same number of sec

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread m . roth
Dumb thought: I don't remember how, other than from a grub menu, but I'm pretty sure there's a way to default boot into a grub shell. Once there, you can see, using file completion, the drives, and where your initrd is. mark ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 1:59 PM, wrote: > Dumb thought: I don't remember how, other than from a grub menu, but I'm > pretty sure there's a way to default boot into a grub shell. Once there, > you can see, using file completion, the drives, and where your initrd is. It's definitely not an initrd p

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/5/2015 4:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: - Ahh OK now I see why I was confused. The originally posted partition map uses cylinders as units, not LBA. I missed that. Cylinder 1 is the same as LBA 63. And that is sufficiently large for a GRUB legacy stage 2. - OK this is screwy. Partitions 1 and 3

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/5/2015 3:59 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Dumb thought: I don't remember how, other than from a grub menu, but I'm pretty sure there's a way to default boot into a grub shell. Once there, you can see, using file completion, the drives, and where your initrd is. Good thought. I went into the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/5/2015 4:40 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 1:59 PM, wrote: Dumb thought: I don't remember how, other than from a grub menu, but I'm pretty sure there's a way to default boot into a grub shell. Once there, you can see, using file completion, the drives, and where your initr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread m . roth
Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 8/5/2015 3:59 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Dumb thought: I don't remember how, other than from a grub menu, but I'm >> pretty sure there's a way to default boot into a grub shell. Once there, >> you can see, using file completion, the drives, and where your initrd >> is.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > That's because I'm intending to increase the size of that filesystem. The > raid should work as long as the new partition is at least as big as the old > one. Once I get this working, I will remove the original drive and add > another 1TB dr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 13:11 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > # smartctl -i /dev/hdg | grep -i sector > > Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical > I don't get a "Sector Size" line. > > smartctl version 5.38 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce > Allen On the latest Centos 5 =

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Murphy
I never thought I'd say this, but I think it's easier to do this with GRUB 2. Anyway I did an installation to raid1's in CentOS 6's installer, which still uses GRUB legacy. I tested removing each of the two devices and it still boots. These are the commands in its log: : Running... ['/sbin/grub-

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread Chris Murphy
Rats. That wrapped ugly. Here's that section in the log using fpaste. http://fpaste.org/252028/88181881/ Chris Murphy ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Skype on CentOS

2015-08-05 Thread Andrew Daviel
I have Skype 2.1.0 running on CentOS 5, but it does not support video. At various times I have tried to install or run more recent versions on CentOS 5 and CentOS 6, but generally they fail for some reason, e.g. library requirements. We would like to run Skype in some conference rooms, for

Re: [CentOS] Skype on CentOS

2015-08-05 Thread Digimer
On 05/08/15 08:06 PM, Andrew Daviel wrote: > > I have Skype 2.1.0 running on CentOS 5, but it does not support video. > > At various times I have tried to install or run more recent versions on > CentOS 5 and CentOS 6, but generally they fail for some reason, e.g. > library requirements. > > We

Re: [CentOS] why no recent bind update for CentOS 6?

2015-08-05 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 08/04/2015 06:40 PM, Peter wrote: > On 08/05/2015 11:30 AM, Always Learning wrote: >> No. Johnny wrote >> >> "CentOS Linux normally also follows the upstream dist tags, except >> " for packages where we make changes, where we use .el6.centos on >> " those to denote we have modified them." > >

Re: [CentOS] unwelcome gthumb slideshow

2015-08-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
Any ideas on where to look for help? My searches generally yield a lot of how-tos that bury any how-not-tos. On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Michael Hennebry wrote: I have a gif image in a folder. Whenever I have gthumb display it or a copy of it, gthumb goes into slideshow mode. Usually I can stop the sho

Re: [CentOS] xfs question

2015-08-05 Thread Keith Keller
On 2015-08-05, James A. Peltier wrote: > > This is not at all our findings on large file systems or filesystems with > large numbers of inodes. We in fact on many occasions ran into such > problems. To the OP, if you're 64-bit everywhere there's no problems so > enjoy the benefits of XFS ;)

Re: [CentOS] why no recent bind update for CentOS 6?

2015-08-05 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 08/04/2015 04:40 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 07:06 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> CentOS Linux normally also follows the upstream dist tags, except for >> packages where we make changes, where we use .el6.centos on those to >> denote we have modified them. > > I tho

Re: [CentOS] why no recent bind update for CentOS 6?

2015-08-05 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 08/05/2015 09:59 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Red Hat then took input from their beta release (from users and testing) > and did an RC on April 3rd, 2015, That should have said April 3rd, 2014 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: [CentOS] why no recent bind update for CentOS 6?

2015-08-05 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 21:59 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > To reiterate, CentOS is built using the RHEL source code .. but it is > NOT even close to being a CLONE of RHEL. Thank you for your explanation. Best wishes, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union. _

Re: [CentOS] why no recent bind update for CentOS 6?

2015-08-05 Thread Peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/06/2015 12:33 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> CentOS is, in as much as is reasonably possible, a clone of RHEL, >> but it cannot be an exact duplicate of all the packages. > > I don't like the word clone .. but certainly CentOS is a rebuild of > RHE