I picked up a RocketRaid 1640 card b/c it had support for "RedHat".
Apparently, their version of "RedHat" is "stable"(9), which I pointed
out was "dead" for all security purposes... (at least, that was what I
understood from someone in one of the RH/clone IRC channels.)
It turns out that I need to build a new driver from their open source
code. This task is a little over my head. (Appears to be a 'lot' over
my head, but I'm assuming that it just looks bigger than it is b/c I
keep reading "compiling a kernel isn't that hard..." ... yet, I've yet
to be successful on any platform.)
I'm in this mess because I recommended our company use Linux for a
fileserver. I think that once it is up and running, it will be the
rock-solid workhorse that I claimed it could be... however, I've got to
get past this hurdle first.
Is there a FAQ for compiling a new kernel specifically for CentOS 4.1?
I've tried some of the generic flavored FAQs, but I tend to get confused
with the differences between the flavors. (I was reading something in
the slackware forums about using lilo as the first step to compiling a
new kernel... ) -- the point is that someone tells me "CentOS is
identical to RHEL 4", then I go and look at RHEL 4 docs, and they say
that the source package for the kernel has been removed, and you need to
download the RPM which is only available from them... I can't be sure,
however, I don't think CentOS is identical in this way...
Really, I'd like a FAQ for specific kernel compilation on CentOS 4.1,
however, failing that, here are the error messages that I'm getting:
In trying to follow this guide:
http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/index.html
, I was unable to complete step 4: first and foremost, there was no
mention of rpm-build in that guide, which I was told I needed to
install, and did, seemingly without issue.
This was the next message I received:
> [root@localhost jae]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm
> 1:kernel warning: user builder does not exist -
> using root
> warning: group builder does not exist - using root
> warning: user builder does not exist - using root
... Which I suspect was my own fault for trying to use a non-root script
as root to install the kernel source.
Exiting root status back into my user account yielded this:
> sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
> sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
I have no idea what these messages are trying to tell me... but I did
note further links in this guide, and ultimately modified
/etc/rpm/macros, copying this code:
http://users.tkk.fi/~tkarvine/rpm-build-as-user.html
... which resulted in more errors:
> [j@localhost ~]$ sudo rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm
> sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
> sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
> sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
> sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> error: cannot create %sourcedir /rpmbuild/kernel
... Can someone *please* point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
-- J.N.
