On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 10:38 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:

John,

Thanks for the info. I am having trouble with the downloading of the src.rpm.

Is that just on the mirrors somewhere or is there an easy place to grab the i686.src.rpm?

I tried "rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm" and got an error.

Where on the mirrors is the i686.src.rpm?

THanks,

Jerry

That is the correct package ... but it might not have been on the mirror ... give it a couple minutes and try again.

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 10:05 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:

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/ I am attempting to recompile the kernel with the following steps.

/>/ />/ Install kernel-sourcecode rpm />/ />/ cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-11.EL />/ cp /boot/config-2.6.9-11.EL .config />/ make menuconfig />/ Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Serial Drivers />/ change Max number of non legacy 8250_NR_UARTS to 36 />/ make bzImage />/ make modules_install />/ make install />/ />/ Then after rebooting and selecting my -custom image from the above compile />/ />/ "mount: error 19 mounting ext3" />/ "mount: error 2 mounting none" />/ />/ Then the machine stops of source. />/ />/ What happended? How do I get my custom kernel to boot. / Jerry,

The kernel-sourcecode package (it is no-arch) doesn't always apply all kernel patches for the arch in question. I actually think it is kind of worthless and we will probably stop including it.

Try this instead :)

Download the kernel-xxxxx.src.rpm

do:

rpm -Uvh kernel-xxxxx.src.rpm

go to the SPECS directory and do this:

rpmbuild -bp --target i686 kernel-xxx.spec

then go to the BUILD directory and go down to the kernel directory and build there.

(substitute the versions for xxxxx ... also use the correct --target for the kernel you are trying to compile) This will get all the target related patches applied.

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