Can anyone point me towards a pre-built kernel 2.6.20 for CentOS 5? I need the later version to run Yosemite backup. I thought I was being clever and installed a Fedora kernel and it worked 99%, sadly the bit that didn't was the tape device which rather spoiled things. thanks, Kevin Thorpe
Rainer Traut wrote:> Kevin Thorpe schrieb: >> Can anyone point me towards a pre-built kernel 2.6.20 for CentOS 5? >> >> I need the later version to run Yosemite backup. I thought I was >> being clever and installed a Fedora kernel and it worked 99%, sadly >> the bit that didn't was the tape device which rather spoiled things. > > I run Yosemite backup on EL4, which has a much older kernel than Centos5. > > What does not work and what error message do you get?When I start ytadmin after a reboot I get a message in the alerts: Error 4463 - Kernel version not supported due to a bug in the scsi generic kernel driver. Device access restricted to file based devices only. It also mentions something about not supporting 2.6.18 and needing 2.6.20. I've seen comments about tape blocksizes on some versions of the kernel. I suspect that's what the problem is. When I loaded the Fedora 2.6.20 kernel the system ran perfectly ok but the tape just kept giving me Input/Output errors, even in mt and tar. I'm not particularly surprised at that though, it is a different distribution even if it is related. -- Kevin Thorpe
Kevin Thorpe wrote:> Can anyone point me towards a pre-built kernel 2.6.20 for CentOS 5? > > I need the later version to run Yosemite backup. I thought I was being > clever and installed a Fedora kernel and it worked 99%, sadly the bit > that didn't was the tape device which rather spoiled things.what part of the .20 kernel is required ? could you just backport the driver once and for all and not need to worry about it then ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
Kevin Thorpe schrieb:> Can anyone point me towards a pre-built kernel 2.6.20 for CentOS 5? > > I need the later version to run Yosemite backup. I thought I was being > clever and installed a Fedora kernel and it worked 99%, sadly the bit > that didn't was the tape device which rather spoiled things.I run Yosemite backup on EL4, which has a much older kernel than Centos5. What does not work and what error message do you get? Rainer