Eric B. spake the following on 1/25/2007 6:11 PM: > "Jim Perrin" <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote in > message news:302ce8b50701251406w203a6a06k999b65050b6df77b at mail.gmail.com... >>> Is the stock 2.6.9-42.EL kernel compiled with ISA support? Do i need to >>> rebuild the kernel by hand? Is there anything I need to do to enable ISA >>> support in CentOS4.4? If I do need to rebuild the kernel, what >> >> Nope. The kernel was built without isa support. There was a mailing >> list thread a while back (the exactly link escapes me) which explained >> how to rebuild with ISA support specifically, however the wiki >> (wiki.centos.org) contains the steps needed to build a custom kernel. >> >> Support for ISA may have been built into the centosplus kernel by >> Johnny, but I honestly can't remember if he did that or not. > > Thanks for the advice. I followed the instructions on the wiki to rebuild > the kernel (still waiting for the kernel to finish rebuilding), but I was > confused by one thing. The current kernel2.6.9-i686.config file shows the > ISA option to be enabled. Wouldn't that be the default setting of the > kernel then? I am running 2.6.9-42.EL. Wouldn't that imply that it is > enabled on that kernel then? Is there a way I can check to validate that it > isn't already enabled? > > Thanks, > > Eric In your /boot directory is the config file that is generated when the kernel rpm was created. You will have one for every installed kernel. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!