OK I finally got Rocky Linux 8.10 INSTALLED (!!) with my custom Partitions and my ext4 file systems. I ran into a small annoying problem and wonder if anyone here has run into this problem, and if so how did you fix it or simple life with it: I can’t seem to get a custom login sheet, but I did get a custom splash background. I have a grey login background. I checked openSUSE 15.6, don’t have that problem ; openSUSE 16.0, does not have that problem; CentOS 7.9, does not have that problem… indeed none of the OS’s I have tried has that problem, EXCEPT for Rocky Linux 8.10, it is simply a GREY background. Given that I login very infrequently. I have no idea WHY I can assign a custom SPLASH screen but CAN NOT assign a custom login screen for Rocky Linux 8.10. I’m just grateful I was able to INSTALL 8.10 to replace CentOS 7.9. I may backup 8.10 and try to install Rocky Linux 9.8 !!! on this OLD machine but seriously doubt it would fly… I’d be amazed if it did install.
BTW as I said I am working to upgrade the OS of some Ancient Technology, it is a “challenge” – it was running CentOS 7.9. ocelot is my current day-to-day machine with its 128 GiB of RAM, Ryzen 12 Core 24 thread CPU, MSI Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X OC graphics Card… but leopard is a nice backup machine in case ocelot go down for one reason or another. I’m simply trying to max out what OS it can run. This is pre-NVME technology… ancient could I INSTALL and RUN ROCKY LINUX 9.8 or is that a Bridge to Far?
Neither of those qualifiers tells which instructions does the CPU support. The supported instructions do matter.
Run on Rocky 8:
ld.so --help
If the output contains:
Subdirectories of glibc-hwcaps directories, in priority order:
x86-64-v4
x86-64-v3
x86-64-v2 (supported, searched)
then the CPU is sufficient for Rocky 9. However, if there is no (supported, searched) on the x86-64-v2 line, then the CPU is lacking.
No idea what that is; i don’t customize GDM (for such things).
Hi jlehtone
OK so I typed
ld.so --help
… and it spit out:
This program interpreter self-identifies as: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Shared library search path:
(libraries located via /etc/ld.so.cache)
/lib64 (system search path)
/usr/lib64 (system search path)
Subdirectories of glibc-hwcaps directories, in priority order:
x86-64-v4
x86-64-v3
x86-64-v2 (supported, searched)
Legacy HWCAP subdirectories under library search path directories:
x86_64 (AT_PLATFORM; supported, searched)
tls (supported, searched)
avx512_1
x86_64 (supported, searched)
… so you are saying my rather ancient technology WILL support Rocky Linux 9.x?? OK so it looks as though I’m going to have lots of fun and games… first I need to download and then burn a copy RL 9.x, then backup 8.10. That should keep me plenty busy. Thanks for the help jlehtone