[CentOS] RE: Problems with building a complete kernel

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:37:56 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> If you are building from the manual method ... you should not do that on
> an RH type distro.  If you are absolutely determined to do it the manual
> way anyway ... then make sure that you copy the configuration file into
> the kernel directory as .config .. then run the command:
> 
> ARCH=i386 make oldconfig
> 
> then, run it again
> 
> ARCH=i386 make oldconfig
> 
> then do the rest of the procedure
> 
> Also, when the kernel is done, use mkinitrd to make and initrd.img
> 
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> 
> STILL ... highly recommend that you build the kernel RPM.
> 
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Long before CentOS 5 comes out, I know I would have to build at
lease one kernel module before I can use it.  That is cifs.  cifs in
kernel >= 2.6.18 has a bug which causes kernel oops/system crash.  The
patch finally became available.  See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211672

However, I just leaned that this fix will not make it into RHEL5 because
RHEL5 is already "locked down tightly."  This means that CentOS 5 will
carry this bug.

I have compiled the cifs module for FC5 and FC6 with the patch and am
assuming the procedure is the same for CentOS.  Is this the case?

Akemi