Using Amazon AWS a lot lately and ran into this twice. If you wish to change the instance type of aan Amazon instance you first need to stop the instance. You can then change the instance type as long as it has the same architecture. 32bit has to stay...
Today I ran into an issue where the an attached EBS volume could only be partly formatted. For a client setup I needed a 1 TiB volume. After creating the 1 TiB EBS volume I attached it to the EC2 instance running a RightScale CentOS 5.6 as /dev/sdb. ...
I recently came across an issue where the CentOS kernel would not load after it was installed by yum and the machine was rebooted. So running # uname -a resulted in: Linux hostname.example.com 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Tue Apr 12 20:34:33...