[mythtv-users] CentOS and Mythtv

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday 05 April 2007 12:11:36 Dale Christ wrote:
> It's been the occasional bad kernel that has been driving me up the wall.

Yeah, that is of course one of the major reasons why RHEL/CentOS stays w/the 
same kernel base for the entire product lifetime. Post-2.6.18 has been a bit 
shaky. There was a TON of stabilization work done for 2.6.18, in no small 
part because that's what RHEL5 is using as its base. Lots of new feature/big 
change stuff went in after 2.6.18 was out the door, so yeah, things have 
been, uh, interesting...

> 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?

I think 'touch /.autofsck' then reboot will trigger an automagic check on 
boot.

> 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).


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com