Jim Perrin wrote:
On 6/28/06, Linus Hicks lihicks@gpi.com wrote:
I looked in the release notes, but maybe I missed it. Is it not possible to build a kernel from CentOS 4.3 (using 2.6.9-34.0.1) with HIGHMEM support turned off? This is for a machine with 512mb.
When I try to build the kernel, I get _etext undefined symbol on line 100 of pageattr.c in arch/i386/mm.
What kernel are you trying to build, and how are you trying to build it?
I should probably also throw in a 'why are you building your own kernel?' too, but we'll save that for a little later.
Everything is from CentOS including the kernel sources. I downloaded the SRPM and modified the spec file to %define buildsource 1 then did an rpmbuild. Then I installed the kernel-sourcecode rpm that it generated. So then I could run the kernel config from /usr/src/linux-<version> and then build a custom kernel.