[CentOS] Installing from a custom kernel

Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On 5/4/07, Ruslan Sivak <rsivak at istandfor.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I would be interested in doing that.  Building the md raid10
>> personality as a module.  How would I go about doing this? Toby Bluhm
>> mentioned in a separate thread that he had that module on SL4.4
>
>> [root at tikal ~]#  modprobe raid10
>>
>> [root at tikal ~]#  lsmod | grep raid
>> raid10                 23233  0
>> raid1                  20033  1
>
> As David Miller noted in this thread, CentOS includes the raid10 module.
>
> $ locate raid10.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5/kernel/drivers/md/raid10.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5.centos.plus.1/kernel/drivers/md/raid10.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/kernel/drivers/md/raid10.ko
>
> # modprobe raid10
> # modprobe raid1
> # lsmod | grep raid
> raid1                  55745  0
> raid10                 55873  0
>
> So, they are there.
>
> Akemi
> _______________________________________________

Interesting.  I don't believe they were there for me in a fully booted 
system.  I guess I would have to reinstall and find out.  Is there a way 
to load it when I'm just first installing and going to a shell? 

Russ