[mythtv-users] CentOS and Mythtv

Dale Christ grosserhund at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 16:11:36 UTC 2007


It's been the occasional bad kernel that has been driving me up the wall.  I
might have hardware (hard drive issues that I have to deal with).  I'll work
on that tonight when I get home for work.

Is there way that I can force check my hard drives (one IDE, two SATA)  on
startup?

On 4/5/07, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:25:03 Tom Lichti wrote:
> > Dale Christ wrote:
> > > Has anyone tried using CentOS (I's probably use 5 when it completes
> > > beta) for MythTV?  I'm curious to see if it more stable than Fedora
> > > Core 6.  Thanks.
> >
> > I have a CentOS 4.4 frontend only running current SVN, and it works
> > fine, no problems. I haven't tried it as a backend though.
>
> RHEL4/CentOS4 blows for a backend, at least if HDTV figures into the
> equation.
> Most DVB drivers don't build on such an aged kernel. RHEL5/CentOS5 doesn't
> have drivers out of the box for most capture cards either, but they can be
> built and provided via kernel module rpms (and Axel is already planning to
> do
> so). EL5 should indeed make for a rather nice platform.
>
> Out of curiosity, what exactly has been unstable with FC6? I've never had
> any
> issues with it myself, outside of the occasional kernel regression (i.e.,
> cx88-dvb autoload breaking, but we have that fixed in the next kernel
> release
> after 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6).
>
> --
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
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