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. <br><br>Is there way that I can force check my hard drives (one IDE, two SATA) on startup?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jarod Wilson</b> <<a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com">jarod@wilsonet.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:25:03 Tom Lichti wrote:<br>> Dale Christ wrote:<br>> > Has anyone tried using CentOS (I's probably use 5 when it completes<br>> > beta) for MythTV? I'm curious to see if it more stable than Fedora
<br>> > Core 6. Thanks.<br>><br>> I have a CentOS 4.4 frontend only running current SVN, and it works<br>> fine, no problems. I haven't tried it as a backend though.<br><br>RHEL4/CentOS4 blows for a backend, at least if HDTV figures into the equation.
<br>Most DVB drivers don't build on such an aged kernel. RHEL5/CentOS5 doesn't<br>have drivers out of the box for most capture cards either, but they can be<br>built and provided via kernel module rpms (and Axel is already planning to do
<br>so). EL5 should indeed make for a rather nice platform.<br><br>Out of curiosity, what exactly has been unstable with FC6? I've never had any<br>issues with it myself, outside of the occasional kernel regression (i.e
.,<br>cx88-dvb autoload breaking, but we have that fixed in the next kernel release<br>after 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6).<br><br>--<br>Jarod Wilson<br><a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com">jarod@wilsonet.com</a><br>_______________________________________________
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