I go along with that. Will be heading down this road myself in the not too distant future and be needing a recompile of the kernel, and for some reason its all very cloak and dagger and misdirection.

 

I fully understand and agree with the most of the points raised earlier, thats not in question. Sometimes people would just like a straightforward answer though or a reference to a page. If there isn't one and no one knows how to do something then fine, but thats rarely the case.

 

Thanks for those links, will hopefully help when have to tackle this myself.

 

On 4/1/06, Bogdan Nicolescu <bo2k2@yahoo.com> wrote:

Nick,

The question of kernel compilation is a periodic
question, and usually the answer will be anything else
except the process itself.  I asked the same question
just a couple of days ago. Don't bother wasting time
waiting for an answer, and start searching the web.
rpmbuild seems to be part of the method required for a
custom kernel.

The irony is that for a distributions which prides
itself to be a recompilation of another distribution
(RH) (and we're all grateful for that), the process of
recompiling one of the integral part of the
districtution, the kernel, is one of the best kept
secrets.  Why can't some just give a straight answer
or point to a page that has the answer?

Anyway, I have searched, and found this guides which
might help:

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/errata/#sn-kernel

and

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-kernel-fc4.html

Didn't have the time to try it out yet myself.  Next
week sometimes.


--- Nick Smith <nick.smith79@gmail.com > wrote:

> Im sorry if this is a newb question, but how do you
> recompile the
> kernel in CentOS 4.3? I need to add reiserfs support
> (even though the
> setup detected it) the kernel it gave me didnt have
> support for
> reiserfs, and my entire fileserver is all reiserfs.
> I tried the
> gentoo way, which im use to and it bombed.  What do
> i need to do? does
> it install kernel source by default? I couldnt find
> any good
> documentation on the subject, and this is my first
> RH type install.
>
> thanks
>
> Nick
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