Fedora 10, Kernel without xen

[stan]

Robert Wuest wrote:
> Can someone please tell me how to get a kernel for fedora 10 without
> xen. I don't use it and don't plan to don't have any need for it.  I
> have an nvidia graphics card and want to use their driver (because it is
> much faster).  I've been using Nvidia's installer for quite a while, and
> everything was fine until 2.6.27 on Fedora 9.  I stayed on 2.6.26 there
> because of this.  I've poked around RPM fusion, but don't see a kernel
> there, either.  I haven't tried their version of the nvidia driver.  I
> had a system that was working just fine for me and now it's broken :(.
> 
> Would I be better off just building the latest from kernel.org?
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
I ran the latest kernel on F9 i386 (from memory 2.6.27-40) 
and it is not zen.  I am not an expert at this, but there 
used to be a specific zen kernel you had to select.  The 
normal kernel did not have it.  Try uninstalling the latest 
kernel using yum, then yum clean all.  Then yum update.  It 
should get the latest kernel with the same options as the 
2.6.26 version you have.

I actually compile a custom kernel to get rid of all the 
fluff that I don't need in the standard kernel.  Getting it 
to work with all the dependencies in the kernel is a bit of 
work, but once you have a .config that works you can just 
make oldconfig and keep updating all the time.  Well at 
least until another dependency breaks.  Things that are 
linked are in different places, and sometimes there are 
dependencies between nonintuitive options.  All part of the 
fun.  :-) There was a thread within the last few weeks that 
asked about compiling a kernel and you could get the links 
to compiling it there.  I'd put the links here, but I'm on a 
different machine, and can't find that email.

One is on the fedora wiki, the other is at howto forge.