CentOS

I meant to say, be sure to burn the iso file as an image. Not as a data file.

Sorry for the confusion.

I really hate to ask, but are you burning the DVD as an image file, and not as a data file?

IOW, you should end up with a DVD with several files and directories. And not just one big iso file.

Maybe this can help: https://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=46

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However I would like to do this automatically at boot.
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One way would be to put the hdparm command in [b]/etc/rc.d/rc.local[/b]

You're welcome. Not sure about KDE.

Maybe a search for [i]editing kde menus[/i] would turn up some info?

If you have [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alacarte]alacarte[/url] installed, you should be able to right-click over Applications, and then select Edit Menus.

You may want to look into rebuilding a SRPM.

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM

[b]Edit: cniggeler, please ignore this post. Looks like you nailed it regarding CentOS-5 GRUB not working with ext4.[/b] Anyway, this is what I've been able to come up with so far: First, in your CentOS-5 grub.conf, I would change the entry to: [code] title CentOS 6 SIX root (hd1,4) chainloader +1 [...

CentOS-6 uses legacy GRUB, not GRUB-2. I'm not having a problem chainloading CentOS-6 from CentOS-5 GRUB. (32 bit system using PATA hard drives.) Here is a partial diagram of my main multiboot system: [code] /dev/hda <--- CentOS-5.8 GRUB Bootloader in MBR /dev/hda1 <--- Win-XP /dev/hda2 <--- "/myfat...

The GPG-KEY was replaced on my 32 bit system. [code] $ ls -al /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/ total 40 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May 8 08:19 . drwxr-xr-x. 8 root root 4096 Jan 21 09:43 .. -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1706 Dec 8 20:03 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1730 Dec 8 20:03 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-D...

On my CentOS-6 system, the directory 'BUILDROOT' was automatically created by something I rebuilt. I have this: [code] [username@sony rpmbuild]$ ls -al total 32 drwxr-xr-x 8 username username 4096 Jan 27 10:41 . drwxr-xr-x 5 username username 4096 Feb 5 08:21 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 username username 4096 F...