custom kernel

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

David Cary Hart wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 12:23 -0600, ShashankBhide wrote:
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>>>The error messages you get would be necessary to diagnose this.
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>>>Paul.
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>>I am builing the kernel version 2.6.10-1.1121_FC4 on a sony vaio PCG 
>>GRV550 Laptop with pentium 4 processor.
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>>I do not know how much of the output is going to be needed; I am going 
>>to paste the end part of the rpmbuild -bb command here.
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>Maybe it's just me but, IMHO, I think it unwise to build kernels from
>the src.rpm. The entire process seems arcane and the results are not
>entirely predictable. It seems safer and simpler to do the following:
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>1. Obtain and install the src.rpm
>2. Edit the spec file to compile a kernel-source.rpm
>3. Install the kernel-source.rpm which installs the complete source tree
>to /usr/src.
>4. Make mrproper, make menuconfig, make all, make modules_install, make
>install, make clean.
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>You now have a new, fully customized kernel, ready to run, with
>grub.conf updated.
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>"But it's not an RPM." So what?
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That's how I've been doing my kernel upgrades since kernel 2.4.22 in Red 
Hat9, and later in the FC's till now.