> As near as I have been able to figure out, anaconda > detects the hardware on which it is loading, and > looks for rpms of kernels which it can load, and > determines the most advanced kernel it can use and > loads it. The distribution CD contains several > rpm's with pre-compiled kernels which anaconda can > choose from. > > I _think_ that the way to make those rpm's is to > unpack the kernel source rpm, run rpm -ba on it, and > look for the completed rpm's in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS. > I tried this with the 2.4.2 kernel source rpm from > RH 7.1, and it seemed to work. Except, it only made > 386 kernels, not 586 or 686. (The source kernel > rpm I started with was kernel-2.4.2-2.src.rpm from > the RH 7.1 source CD.) > > Yes, I know, I can look through the kernel source > spec file and find the answer, but does anyone know > how to get that spec file to also build 586 or 686 > kernels? > > Thanks, > > --Seth > sethal@xxxxxxxxx rpm -bb --target i686 kernel.spec It might be --target=i686 or --target 686. I cannot remember which one it is on Seawolf. Forrest
