[CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

Wed Oct 17 18:38:16 UTC 2007
Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org>

Florin Andrei wrote:
> Let's say I want to use a much newer kernel - even one from the future, 
> such as the upcoming 2.6.24. :-) What would y'all smart folks do in this 
> case, in order to avoid any possible nasty consequences?
> Would you import the config file from the original CentOS5 kernel into 
> the new kernel, and let the kernel deal with the differences? I.e. have 
> the old configuration as some sort of baseline that can be further tweaked.
> Or some other strategy?

To answer my own question, this looks like the correct method:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel

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Florin Andrei

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