[CentOS-devel] Kernel used on installation media.

Sat Feb 24 00:06:03 UTC 2007
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> Hi all, I hope this is not too off topic.  I've searched the -devel archives,
> but haven't found clear-cut information on this, so thought I'd ask.
> 
> I am trying to determine the kernel configuration used to build the kernel
> used on the installation media (CD #1 or the vmlinuz/initrd.img files in their
> respective images/boot.iso or images/diskboot.img files).
> 
> My guess is the kernel configurations are not identical to the ones ultimately
> used to build the kernels used on the system once it is up and running....
> 
> I ask because I am interested in rebuilding the kernel used on CD #1 to boot
> into the installer.
> 

look in the distro tree : 
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS ( eg, for the i386  )
the kernel-2.6.9-*.<i686|i586>.rpm are the ones used for the installer, 
each contain a .config file which will give you the config file used at 
build time for that kernel rpm.

Why do you need to rebuild the installer kernel ? doing DriverDisks for 
some piece of non-supported-by-default-hardware isnt hard.


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