On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 11:48 -0700, Michael Best wrote:
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
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?
There is a process for getting the patched kernel source out of the .src.rpm (although you'll probably need a Centos system, or one in VMWare/Xen/etc)
Yeah, I was starting to think I might have to do that.
http://www.pendragon.org/mywiki/KernelSource
If you like I could probably make you a tarball of that and provide it for you.
That would be great if you can. If you want I can send you the config, if you want to make resulting binary? Because it's a two fold deal. Here I only have the one AMD64 machine, and must cross compile on a 32bit proc to build a 64bit kernel.
So if I got the route of setting up a CentOS box I will have to do it on x86, and make sure it has a cross compiler for x86_64.
Might see if I can find a local CentOS user to help with the compiling a custom x86_64 kernel. If I had the $ I would pay some for the their time. But then again if I had the $ I would ditch the Adaptec 1420sa for a 3Ware or Hight Point solution that has open source drivers ;)
Thanks for the reply and offer to help. It's greatly appreciated, and if I can return the favor will definitely do so.