Eric B. spake the following on 1/25/2007 6:11 PM:
> "Jim Perrin" <jperrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:302ce8b50701251406w203a6a06k999b65050b6df77b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Is the stock 2.6.9-42.EL kernel compiled with ISA support? Do i need to
>>> rebuild the kernel by hand? Is there anything I need to do to enable ISA
>>> support in CentOS4.4? If I do need to rebuild the kernel, what
>>
>> Nope. The kernel was built without isa support. There was a mailing
>> list thread a while back (the exactly link escapes me) which explained
>> how to rebuild with ISA support specifically, however the wiki
>> (wiki.centos.org) contains the steps needed to build a custom kernel.
>>
>> Support for ISA may have been built into the centosplus kernel by
>> Johnny, but I honestly can't remember if he did that or not.
>
> Thanks for the advice. I followed the instructions on the wiki to rebuild
> the kernel (still waiting for the kernel to finish rebuilding), but I was
> confused by one thing. The current kernel2.6.9-i686.config file shows the
> ISA option to be enabled. Wouldn't that be the default setting of the
> kernel then? I am running 2.6.9-42.EL. Wouldn't that imply that it is
> enabled on that kernel then? Is there a way I can check to validate that it
> isn't already enabled?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
In your /boot directory is the config file that is generated when the kernel
rpm was created. You will have one for every installed kernel.
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