Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:05:45 -0700
stan <goedigi89__e@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I downloaded and recompiled the kernel source RPM for the 2.6.25.6-55
kernel.
I have noted in the past that the fedora kernels statically link the
things like the usbhid module, perhaps your new kernel didn't do that.
Possibly you should check the kernel config of the custom kernel you
built against the fedora config (which should be in /boot along with
the kernel and initrd). You probably only want them to be different
in the one place where you added support for your dvd drive.
Thanks. You gave me the clue with the usbhid. That rang a bell. I
went back into the .config and found I'd got rid of it. It is
recompiling now and should work just fine.
Actually, I wan't to get rid of the functionality that has to be in
generic kernels, but that I don't need. Amateur radio, ISA support,
etc. I'll eventually end up with a configuration file that I can apply
to all future kernels so that I can keep my kernel lean and mean.
For anyone interested, I followed the instructions (mostly) at
http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_fedora and though they were
written for Fedora 6 they worked just fine for Fedora 9. The only thing
that was really different was that instead of copying the rpmbuild
structure from /usr/src/redhat it can now be installed with a script,
rpmdev-setuptree.
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