OK- A dumb question. Will a "generic"(kernel.org) kernel work with Centos 4? My reason for asking- I'm needing to upgrade from RH9, and would rather go ahead and go with 4 for the 2.6 kernel, but I need a patched kernel (Win4Lin), and I'm not sure they will offer a prepatched version (though they probably will for EL4).
Thanks!
Short answer: probably yes, but not in the way RH/CentOS intended.
Long answer: you are better off obtaining the source RPM for the running kernel at hand, add your patch to the already insanely long list of Red Hat patches applied to the kernel, change the release tag (to make it unique to you), and 'rpmbuild -ba' a whole new set of kernel binaries.
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Chris Bryant wrote:
OK- A dumb question. Will a "generic"(kernel.org) kernel work with Centos 4? My reason for asking- I'm needing to upgrade from RH9, and would rather go ahead and go with 4 for the 2.6 kernel, but I need a patched kernel (Win4Lin), and I'm not sure they will offer a prepatched version (though they probably will for EL4).
Thanks!
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 17:06 -0500, Chris Bryant wrote:
OK- A dumb question. Will a "generic"(kernel.org) kernel work with Centos 4? My reason for asking- I'm needing to upgrade from RH9, and would rather go ahead and go with 4 for the 2.6 kernel, but I need a patched kernel (Win4Lin), and I'm not sure they will offer a prepatched version (though they probably will for EL4).
I have not tried this on Centos 4 but on the -3 series, the kernel would boot fine, but I couldn't get XFree to run. I did not research it very far, but I'm guessing it had to do with the patches. Do you have the option of attempting to apply the patch(es) you need to the Centos 4 kernel to see if it will apply?
watch the output of the patch...
You'll normally see what applies / what doesn't. I normally log all patch output and then read it later. :)
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:54:53 -0500, C. Linus Hicks lhicks@nc.rr.com wrote:
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 17:06 -0500, Chris Bryant wrote:
OK- A dumb question. Will a "generic"(kernel.org) kernel work with Centos 4? My reason for asking- I'm needing to upgrade from RH9, and would rather go ahead and go with 4 for the 2.6 kernel, but I need a patched kernel (Win4Lin), and I'm not sure they will offer a prepatched version (though they probably will for EL4).
I have not tried this on Centos 4 but on the -3 series, the kernel would boot fine, but I couldn't get XFree to run. I did not research it very far, but I'm guessing it had to do with the patches. Do you have the option of attempting to apply the patch(es) you need to the Centos 4 kernel to see if it will apply?
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Thanks to all- for some reason, Netraverse says that the patch *must* be applied to a vanilla kernel and not a distribution kernel, though I'm not sure why.
I'll probably try it anyway- I'm good at breaking things (c;
On Feb 26, 2005, at 17:32, Chris Bryant wrote:
Thanks to all- for some reason, Netraverse says that the patch *must* be applied to a vanilla kernel and not a distribution kernel, though I'm not sure why.
I'm assuming because Netraverse does not want to deal with how each distribution has kernels patched all the way from here to Sunday, and they cannot guarantee that their patch applies cleanly there. Makes sense, in a way.
jens
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 11:32 -0500, Chris Bryant wrote:
Thanks to all- for some reason, Netraverse says that the patch *must* be applied to a vanilla kernel and not a distribution kernel, though I'm not sure why.
I'll probably try it anyway- I'm good at breaking things (c;
They have precompiled kernels ... but none yet for RHEL-4 ... http://www.netraverse.com/member/downloads/kernel_precompiled_yes.php
But they should have one soon for RHEL4
Also you will note on that page: http://www.netraverse.com/member/downloads/kernel_precompiled_yes.php#link4a
Basically it informs you how to grab the patches and extract them for building your own distribution kernel.
I would grab the SuSE 9.2 kernels (2.6.8) for a starting point... as the RH kernels are all 2.4.x.
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 13:48:35 -0600, Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com wrote:
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 11:32 -0500, Chris Bryant wrote:
Thanks to all- for some reason, Netraverse says that the patch *must* be applied to a vanilla kernel and not a distribution kernel, though I'm not sure why.
I'll probably try it anyway- I'm good at breaking things (c;
They have precompiled kernels ... but none yet for RHEL-4 ... http://www.netraverse.com/member/downloads/kernel_precompiled_yes.php
But they should have one soon for RHEL4
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