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.