[CentOS] Building a new 2.6 kernel

Tue Jul 25 16:42:05 UTC 2006
John Warren <jwarren at prudentrx.com>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Linus Hicks
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:29 AM
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> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building a new 2.6 kernel
> 
> 
> John Warren wrote:
> > Success, well 98% success anyway.
> > 
> > New kernel boots just fine if you leave it alone during the 
> boot but I have
> > run into one small problem that I home someone may have seen before.
> > 
> > During the boot Kudzu starts up. If you leave it alone and 
> let it timeout the
> > boot completes. If you enter the Kudzu then the boot will 
> hang. If you
> > CTRL-ALT-DEL the system will do a clean reboot. If you 
> enter Kudzu it wants to
> > remove the Generic modem driver. 
> 
> Have you tried altering /etc/sysconfig/kudzu?

No, it currently reads:

# Set to anything other than 'no' to force a 'safe' probe on startup.
# 'safe' probe disables:
# - serial port probing
# - DDC monitor probing
# - PS/2 probing
SAFE=no

I guess I could set serial port probing to no.

> 
> You might also inspect /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and see if you 
> can determine what 
> it believes is different.

See my other post but it seems to be "Generic Serial Modem" entries.

> 
> And have you read the kudzu man page?

Yes, but I thought that was more for manually using Kudzu.

> 
> Linus
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