[CentOS] Recompiling the Kernel for CentOS 6.5

Fri Mar 28 18:34:08 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Saket Sinha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on CentOS 6.5 which has 2.6.32-431 kernel.
>
> I have a problem with my driver and I need to enable Kernel-Memory
> leak in the kernel for which I will have to recompile the kernel.
>
> I get the kernel source tree from the the source rpm for my running
> kernel from below link-
>
> http://vault.centos.org/6.5/updates/Source/SPackages/kernel-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.src.rpm
>
>  and I try to build the kernel according to the doc link written for
> RHEL-3 -
>
> http://www.centos.org/docs/rhel-sag-en-3/s1-custom-kernel-modularized.html
>
> according to which it tells me , after make menuconfig( and
> customizing my configuration), I need to follow the following steps-
>
> 1.  make bzImage
> 2.  make modules
> 3.  make modules_install
> 4.  make install
>
>
> but I get errors in the first step only-(make bzImage)

But what *are* the errors?
>
> It was pointed out the CentOS-devel mailing list the below link-
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
>
> which allows me to create a rpm for my customized kernel and install it.
>
> Now my question is there no method where in I can apply a kernel
> source tree from kernel.org(maybe 3,x version) and install it on
> Centos ?
>
I think that the answer's no way. You'd require a new (gnuw? <g>) glibc,
and a ton of other things. If you really need a 3.x kernel, I suggest you
try the 7 beta.

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