Hello Everyone,
I wanted to recompile the kernel from source. I downloaded the source rpm (kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL.src.rpm) from centos and installed the rpm. In /usr/src/redhat I unzipped and untard the linuxx-2.6.9 base files. After doing that I wanted to patch the kernel with the numerous patch files that came with the src rpm.
The problem that I am having is that a lot of the patch files fail an example:
patch -p1 < ../linux-2.6.9-megaraid-update.patch
patching file drivers/scsi/megaraid/mega_common.h
Hunk #1 FAILED at 27.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/scsi/megaraid/mega_common.h.rej
patching file drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 10.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 217.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 244.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 286.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 340.
Is this not the right procedure for patching the kernel?
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Steve Moccio smoccio@ureachtech.com wrote:
I wanted to recompile the kernel from source. I downloaded the source rpm (kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL.src.rpm) from centos and installed the rpm. In /usr/src/redhat – I unzipped and untar'd the linuxx-2.6.9 base files. After doing that I wanted to patch the kernel with the numerous patch files that came with the src rpm.
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Is this not the right procedure for patching the kernel?
I do not know why you need to recompile the kernel but, if you must, make sure you do it CentOS way. Please read these CentOS wiki articles:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/I_need_the_Kernel_Source http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
Akemi
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Steve Moccio smoccio@ureachtech.com wrote:
Is this not the right procedure for patching the kernel?
No, see http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel.
HTH, -Bob
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