grub prompt

[josh at offthehill.org (Josh ChaitinPollak)]

Have you tried just telling them it is RHEL? I'm curious because we  
use some products that require RHEL and I'd love to use CentOS on our  
development systems.

Is there anyway for installed programs to figure out it isn't RHEL? I  
have one software package that checks /etc/redhat-release to make  
sure the text it expects is there. I suppose I'll have to spoof that  
file on a CentOS machine.

-Josh

On Aug 18, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Matt Shields wrote:

> Yes, anything that runs on RHEL will run on CentOS.  I am a huge
> supporter of using CentOS, but I have run into a few issues, not with
> compatibility, but with vendor support.  Because we don't use RHEL,  
> they
> wouldn't support us no matter how much I explained to them that CentOS
> is RHEL.  They said until we installed RHEL they wouldn't support us.
>
> Matthew Shields
> Sr Systems Administrator
> NameMedia, Inc.
> (P) 781-839-2828
> (C) 781-424-3531
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at blu.org] On  
> Behalf
> Of Malloy, John
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:09 PM
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: RE: grub prompt
>
>
> If we have to rebuild the whole server, I will try to get them to use
> Centos instead.
>
> They got the Sybase version for RHEL 4.
>
> It should work with Centos 4.x as well, correct?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> John Malloy
> John.Malloy at pioneerinvestments.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at blu.org] On  
> Behalf
> Of mike ledoux
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:47 PM
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: grub prompt
>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:34:42PM -0400, Malloy, John wrote:
>> The dba went in and changed the kernel to give her Sybase DB more
> memory
>> (and possible other changes).
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> Take root access away from the DBA.
>
> For getting the system back up, if your DBA left the working kernel
> on disk you should be able to tell grub to boot it from that prompt.
> It might still be easier to just boot from a rescue CD and revert to
> a working kernel and grub.conf.
>
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