Ray Van Dolson wrote:
Hi all, I hope this is not too off topic. I've searched the -devel archives, but haven't found clear-cut information on this, so thought I'd ask.
I am trying to determine the kernel configuration used to build the kernel used on the installation media (CD #1 or the vmlinuz/initrd.img files in their respective images/boot.iso or images/diskboot.img files).
My guess is the kernel configurations are not identical to the ones ultimately used to build the kernels used on the system once it is up and running....
I ask because I am interested in rebuilding the kernel used on CD #1 to boot into the installer.
look in the distro tree : http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS ( eg, for the i386 ) the kernel-2.6.9-*.<i686|i586>.rpm are the ones used for the installer, each contain a .config file which will give you the config file used at build time for that kernel rpm.
Why do you need to rebuild the installer kernel ? doing DriverDisks for some piece of non-supported-by-default-hardware isnt hard.