ma, 2008-07-14 kello 12:20 +0100, Alan Bartlett kirjoitti: > On 14/07/2008, Antti J. Huhtala <ahuhtal4 at welho.com> wrote: > I just looked at the updated "I Need the Kernel Source" HowTo > and in my > eyes it is now perfect. No doubt a careful person could now > succeed in > building the kernel tree in one go. > > Thank you for kind words and very helpful feed-back, Antti. Having a > fresh pair of eyes to look at it was very useful. There is an English > saying that "familiarity breeds contempt". In this case, no matter how > many times Akemi and I read that article through, we consistently > missed those tripping-points as we were so familiar with what we were > doing. > > Alan. > Glad I could be of some help. In Finnish we have a corresponding saying which roughly translates to: "A man is blind to his own mistakes." As technical editor of our national ham radio magazine I know only too well how true that is... Now I'm testing your "I Need to Build a Custom Kernel" HowTo. Everything seems to be OK in the HowTo, even if the final build fails with an error "Makefile:405: /home/andie/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/\ linux-2.6.18.i686/arch//Makefile: No such file or directory". This is no wonder considering the fact that two lines above it is stated: "+ Arch= " and the next line reads: "+ make Arch= nonint_oldconfig" It looks like an error in .config trying to write Makefile into an empty arch directory or something similar. I assume this is not a problem in the HowTo, however. I'll look at .config a little closer and if I can not find the problem myself I'll write to the CentOS mailing list. Thanks again, Alan Antti