On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 10:32 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 10:05 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
> > I am attempting to recompile the kernel with the following steps.
> >
> > Install kernel-sourcecode rpm
> >
> > cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-11.EL
> > cp /boot/config-2.6.9-11.EL .config
> > make menuconfig
> > Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Serial Drivers
> > change Max number of non legacy 8250_NR_UARTS to 36
> > make bzImage
> > make modules_install
> > make install
> >
> > Then after rebooting and selecting my -custom image from the above compile
> >
> > "mount: error 19 mounting ext3"
> > "mount: error 2 mounting none"
> >
> > Then the machine stops of source.
> >
> > What happended? How do I get my custom kernel to boot.
>
> Jerry,
>
> The kernel-sourcecode package (it is no-arch) doesn't always apply all
> kernel patches for the arch in question. I actually think it is kind of
> worthless and we will probably stop including it.
>
> Try this instead :)
>
> Download the kernel-xxxxx.src.rpm
>
> do:
>
> rpm -Uvh kernel-xxxxx.src.rpm
>
> go to the SPECS directory and do this:
>
> rpmbuild -bp --target i686 kernel-xxx.spec
>
> then go to the BUILD directory and go down to the kernel directory and
> build there.
>
> (substitute the versions for xxxxx ... also use the correct --target for
> the kernel you are trying to compile) This will get all the target
> related patches applied.
I just put some SRPMS in the
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.1/os/SRPMS/ directory ... including
the kernel. It will take probably 30 minutes for them to get synced to
all the mirror.centos.org machines
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