On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:37:56 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
If you are building from the manual method ... you should not do that on an RH type distro. If you are absolutely determined to do it the manual way anyway ... then make sure that you copy the configuration file into the kernel directory as .config .. then run the command:
ARCH=i386 make oldconfig
then, run it again
ARCH=i386 make oldconfig
then do the rest of the procedure
Also, when the kernel is done, use mkinitrd to make and initrd.img
STILL ... highly recommend that you build the kernel RPM.
Long before CentOS 5 comes out, I know I would have to build at lease one kernel module before I can use it. That is cifs. cifs in kernel >= 2.6.18 has a bug which causes kernel oops/system crash. The patch finally became available. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211672
However, I just leaned that this fix will not make it into RHEL5 because RHEL5 is already "locked down tightly." This means that CentOS 5 will carry this bug.
I have compiled the cifs module for FC5 and FC6 with the patch and am assuming the procedure is the same for CentOS. Is this the case?
Akemi