> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:58 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building a new 2.6 kernel > > <snip> > What you should do. (Rough steps, but close enough) > > Prerequirement http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/buildtree/ Done, I setup the user buildcentos and created the tree under that users home directory. > There are loads of people saying 'do not build as root'. There's good > reason for this, so either create a user to build as or use your own, > so long as you're not building as root. > > 1. Get the kernel source rpm from the url above. and make sure you > have all the deps installed. Done! > 2. cd to buildroot/SPECS, and do 'rpmbuild -bp kernel.spec' This will > create and patch the kernel tree. > 3. Copy the buildroot/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.9-i686-smp.config to > buildroot/BUILD/kernel/linux-version/.config Done. > 4. Configure your kernel how you see fit. make menuconfig etc. Here is where I'm having problems. The make menuconfig fails: [buildcentos at quark linux-2.6.9]$ pwd /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/BUILD/linux-2.6.9 [buildcentos at quark linux-2.6.9]$ ls -al total 72 drwxrwxr-x 2 buildcentos buildcentos 4096 Jul 19 17:15 . drwxrwxr-x 3 buildcentos buildcentos 4096 Jul 19 17:14 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 buildcentos buildcentos 60982 Jul 19 17:18 .config [buildcentos at quark linux-2.6.9]$ make menuconfig make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop. At this point I'm stuck. I've done the menuconfig before using the other procedure but no joy this time. I searched the entire directory tree but can not find a makeconfig file. > 5. Copy the .config back to > buildroot/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.9-i686-smp.config > 6. run rpmbuild --target=i686 -bs buildroot/SPECS/kernel.spec > 7. run rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 > buildroot/SRPMS/kernel-version.src.rpm > > This will build a kernel of the same version and release with your new > options. I'd recommend incrementing the release value defined in the > line I mentioned earlier. > > These are rough steps, but should point you in the right direction. >