[CentOS] Installing from a custom kernel

Fri May 4 21:09:30 UTC 2007
Ruslan Sivak <rsivak at istandfor.com>

Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 5/4/07, Ruslan Sivak <rsivak at istandfor.com> wrote:
>> Since the built in kernel doesn't have the raid10 module for some
>> reason, I would like to custom compile a kernel that does, and install
>> with it.  How would I go about doing this?
>
> Short answer, you don't. Doing this would require rebuilding the
> install iso, unless you can build it as a module and load that via a
> driver disk.
>
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

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You have enlightened me to the raid10 module:

[root at tikal ~]#  locate raid10
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-smp-i686/include/config/md/raid10
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-smp-i686/include/config/md/raid10/module.h
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-smp-i686/include/linux/raid/raid10.h
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.10.EL-i686/include/config/md/raid10
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.10.EL-i686/include/config/md/raid10/module.h
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.10.EL-i686/include/linux/raid/raid10.h
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-i686/include/config/md/raid10
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-i686/include/config/md/raid10/module.h
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-i686/include/linux/raid/raid10.h
/lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.3.EL/kernel/drivers/md/raid10.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.10.EL/kernel/drivers/md/raid10.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/md/raid10.ko

[root at tikal ~]#  modprobe raid10

[root at tikal ~]#  lsmod | grep raid
raid10                 23233  0
raid1                  20033  1
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