On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 08:49:49PM +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote: > I only mention this as im on my 10th pass at trying to build a core 1 > kernel, so im not bitter ;-) What happens to the .configs RH use to > build the kernel, the supplied ones are decoration and seem to be no use > at all, or am I missing the point or just a plonker ? Please vote now ! They are in the .src.rpm. The only real gotcha tends to be that you want to use mkinitrd to generate boot images if you want rootfs mount by label, graphical boot and the like.