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 > > ------------------------------------ > > STILL ... highly recommend that you build the kernel RPM. > > ------------------------------------ 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