[CentOS] Help rebuilding kernel get mount error on reboot

[Jerry Geis]

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


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