How should I be configuring the bootloader to work? If that is the last step then I am really close. Any special steps I need to go through?

From http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/PV-GRUB:



So you'll need to perform surgery on xvda to remove the partitioning and replace it with just a straight filesystem. tar it up, mkfs.ext2 (or 3) /dev/xvda, and then extract it again.

Once extracted, you'll need to put one more symlink in place to appease the linode bootloader, but that is a simple ln -s . boot once you're in /boot.

Be sure to update your /etc/fstab with the new UUID (find it in /dev/disk/by-uuid) and potentially your /boot/grub/menu.list as well to point to the proper device (mine only said 'xvdb1' when it should have said 'xvdb1').

So yeah, that kickstart is not exactly optimal. :)

personally I will wait for an official support from Linode guys,
hoping that it will arrive soon.

How much lag time has there been in the past when a new distro version was released?

I got it working. I redid the install and hand-crafted the disk setup (with help from a friend) making only the / drive LVM. The other drive was just a straight partition. I rebooted and did what you said to do with tarring and making the symlink and fixing /etc/fstab

It now boots and I am on my way.

Thanks for your help!

CentOS 6 (32 and 64 bit) is now listed in the Distribution drop down!

its true, is it stable and officially supported now?
I will wait for an official annoucement.

As it's listed under their "Current Distro" on their FAQ page, and it's a choice in their which distro pull down menu, I'm not sure it can get any more official.

ok, is there some saint that will make a small guide on how to painlessy switch from CentOS 5.6 to CentOS 6?

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4946

Looks like no...

I don't mean to upgrade centos 5.6 to 6.0, I mean that it would be great to have a guide on how to install centOS 6.0 on new linode and than transfer the configuration from the old one to the new one.

can't understand why there isn't an official rss feed or news on the site that annouce the CentOS 6 availability.

Dun dun dun daaaaaaaaaa (fancy musical fanfare)

Heare, heare, let all members of the land of Linodeia know that from this date forward the vast greatness of CentOS 6.0 will be available to all good citizens. Use it in good health so that all in the Kingdom may prosper!

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There, are you happy now?

its funny but they usually makes a news for every new distro available on linode.

This is comfortable because I know when a new distro is available from my RSS client without needing to visit the forum every day and without needing to login to my llinode's dashboard every time I want to know if a distro has been supported.

Can't understand why they doesn't made a news for CentOS

Yes please, for a real novice like me this would be immensely helpful, because it was already hard enough setting the server up in the first place.