Re: SUCCESS! [CentOS] Help rebuilding kernel get mount error on reboot

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:33 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:

John,

Was there a reason for the (2) make oldconfigs? just curious

Yes ... sometimes doing it just once doesn't always work. Especially if there are new features added and the config file is from an older kernel.

This all worked

rpm -i kernel.XXX.src.rpm
            cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
            rpmbuild -bp --target i686 kernel.XXX.spec
            cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9
            make mrproper
            cp /boot/config-2.6.9-11.EL .config
            make oldconfig
            make oldconfig
            make menuconfig
                    Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Serial Drivers
                    change Max number of non legacy 8250_NR_UARTS to 36
            make bzImage
            make modules
            make modules_install
            make install

Glad it worked.