Greetings all,
A little upset because of some very rude people in IRC, on freenode.net. That accused me of trolling and made it so I can't say anything in the channel. More on that later.
Here is the deal, I am in the process of installing Gentoo on a AMD64 server. I messed up and bought the wrong SATAII Raid card, Adaptec 142SA. Which only has binary drivers for RH, SuSE, and UL. 32bit and 64bit modules.
Now having tried all kinds of kernels. I started looking for RH kernel sources. Which is basically what CentOS provides. I started with the
kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.src.rpm
After messing with that for days, patches and all. I decided to give the kernel-devel rpms a go. So I downloaded
kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.x86_64.rpm
Used rpm2targz, and converted them into tarballs which I unpacked. I then moved the sources from usr/lib/kernel, entered the kernel source dir, configured and compiled fine. With the i686 version.
When I attempt to do the same with the x86_64 one I get
wlt 2.6.9-22.EL # make bzImage ARCH=x86_64 V=1 if /usr/bin/env test ! /usr/src/2.6.9-22.EL -ef /usr/src/2.6.9-22.EL; then \ /bin/sh /usr/src/2.6.9-22.EL/scripts/mkmakefile \ /usr/src/2.6.9-22.EL /usr/src/2.6.9-22.EL 2 6 \ > /usr/src/2.6.9-22.EL/Makefile; \ fi CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/asm-x86_64/offset.h make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/basic make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/mod make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=init make[1]: *** No rule to make target `init/main.o', needed by `init/built-in.o'. Stop
Now I came across this posting http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1110
And have heard from others that the preferred way to build RH kernels now is to rebuild an rpm using the src rpm. Which I have never done, but I have been making custom RH kernels since 6.2 or so. Always using the kernel-devel package?
Now on IRC my main question was has anyone built a custom x86_64 kernel? I believe the reason I was booted, because I asked the same person (kbsingh) that question 3 times. Because they never answered, which leads me to believe they have not. Instead they called me a troll and made it so I can't say anything in the channel. Very rude and totally unprofessional. I thought CentOS was a enterprise community distro. Amazing to find that kind of attitude.
Furthermore they were questioning what I did with the kernel-devel to build a custom kernel in the first place. Since they claimed it to be only headers not a full source? So I provided links and etc.
http://dev.obsidian-studios.com/kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686.rpm http://dev.obsidian-studios.com/kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686.tar.gz http://dev.obsidian-studios.com/working-2.6.9-11.EL.tar.gz http://dev.obsidian-studios.com/2.6.9-11.EL.config.working
Now I have been downloading all rpms from http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/
I really need to build a 2.6.9.11.EL x86_64 kernel. I have a working i686 one, links above. But the kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.x86_64.rpm
Seems to be missing stuff that is in the i686 one. Like if you do not properly change dir name from 2.6.9-22.EL.x86_64 to 2.6.9-22.EL you can't compile asm-offsets. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-April/004499.html
However that was not a problem with the i686 sources? The asm-offsets file is provide in i686 kernel-dev rpm and src rpm. The missing x86_64 stuff is not in either kernel-dev or src rpms. Interesting enough, all the missing stuff exists by default with Gentoo sources.
I am really trying to avoid rebuilding a rpm. That would require me to install and setup a CentOS or RHEL box. Which seems a bit much just to build a custom kernel. Considering the kernel will be used for another distro.
Please anyone running CentOS with a custom x86_64 kernel, I would love to hear the processes. Now reason I am posting to dev list and not users, is it seems users are discouraged to build their own kernels as opposed to developers. Who have to make the resulting rpms as it is.
Thoughts, comments, and things of a constructive nature are all greatly appreciated. Hopefully I will not find the same attitude here as in the irc channel.
That type of behavior would keep someone like my who does not run or use CentOS, totally away from it. Gentoo people care less if I ask questions about building a custom centos kernel for Gentoo. Not sure why CentOS people would have a problem with my questions. Considering I am not asking anything about Gentoo, or that aspect of it.
Just how to get a custom x86_64 kernel built using CentOS 2.6.9-22 sources.
Thanks a million.