Akemi Yagi wrote: >On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Yahia Tachwali ><ytachwali at signalogic.com> wrote: > > > >>Thank you for the info, I have installed the rpm and I ended up with the >>following : >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>[root at localhost i686]# rpm -ivh kernel-*.rpm >>Preparing... ########################################### >>[100%] >> package kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL is already installed >> package kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL is already installed >> package kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL is already installed >> package kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL is already installed >> file /boot/System.map-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL from install of >>kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL conflicts with file from package >>kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL >> file /boot/config-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL from install of >>kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL conflicts with file from package >>kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL >> file /boot/symvers-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.gz from install of >>kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL conflicts with file from package >>kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL >> file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL from install of >>kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL conflicts with file from package >>kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>However, I was able to reboot with the new kernel but still I can not find o >>files for my HDLC in the kernel path under driver/net/wan. I am listing >>below the steps that I did to install a new customized kernel starting from >>fresh installation of CentOS 4.4 with kernel 2.6.9-42 >> >>1- getting the kernel: >> 1.1 access as root >> 1.2 yum install rpm-build redhat-rpm-config >> 1.3 su user >> 1.4 cd >> 1.5 mkdir -p rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS} >> 1.6 echo "%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild" > .rpmmacros >> 1.7 rpm -i >>http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.src.rpm >> 2> /dev/null >> 1.8 cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS >> 1.9 rpmbuild -bp --target=`uname -m` kernel-2.6.spec 2> prep-err.log | tee >>prep-out.log >> >> > >Looks good so far. > > > >>These so far sound fine. but then I guess there might be a mistake or >>missing step in my procdure to build the new kernel: >> >>2- building a new kernel: >> 2.1 access as root >> 2.2 rpmbuild -bp --target=`uname -m` kernel-2.6.spec 2> prep-err.log | tee >>prep-out.log >> >> > >The above rpmbuild is not necessary. You have done it correctly in >step 1.9 (as user). > > > >> 2.3 su user >> 2.4 cd ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.`uname -m` >> 2.5 cp configs/kernel-2.6.18-i686.config .config >> 2.6 make oldconfig >> 2.7 make menuconfig {here I left it as is and did not do any modification >>since I am planning to include HDLC as a module after build >>a complete custom kernel} >> >> > >I am confused. If you did not make any changes here, why would you >expect your new kernel to provide the HDLC support (see above) ??? > > > >> 2.8 [user at host SPECS]$ rpmbuild -bb --target=`uname -m` kernel-2.6.spec 2> >>build-err.log | tee build-out.log >> >> > >Before that step (rpmbuild -bb), you should at least edit the line: > >%define buildid .your_identifier > >as written in the Wiki tutorial to make your rpm's version different >from the distro's. > > > >> 2.9 su >> 2.10/ rpm -ivh kernel-*.rpm >> >> and after the last command I have got the conflict warning above. What is >>wrong in my installation procedure! :( Please help. >>/ >> >> > >Your "customized" kernel has the same version/revision as the >distro's. So, it won't install unless you force it (not recommended >at all). > >Akemi >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Thank you. So if it is not recommended to force it , what should I do to get it installed ?