On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:56:27PM -0500, Bob Walsh wrote: > I need to rebuid my Redhat 7.2 kernel to work with informix (9.30 UC2-2 > I think). I have to update (add) 5 simple lines for shared memory. I'd first try RedHat's latest 7.2 errata kernel; one was released in the last few days. Maybe it has already been done for you. :) If not, perhaps you should download redhat's kernel source rpm and install it. It drops kernel sources somewhere, probably /usr/src/kernel-<something>. Perform your patching here, run make oldconfig; make menuconfig (to check all the choices -- I expect they will be fine); then make dep bzImage modules; make modules_install (run this as root), copy the bzImage and System.map files to /boot, edit /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the new kernel. If you've got hardware requiring an initial ramdisk, use the mkinitrd tool to create one. (something like mkinitrd /boot/initrd-<version> <version> ... but read the manpage to make sure!) Then, re-run lilo. Of course, if you are using grub for booting, you'll have to figure out what is involved in reconfiguring it. googling for "grub howto" should help. :) > What is the simplest (most cautious) way to do this ? Is there a > doc out there somewhere that would help me out ? I don't care about > performance, just want to get this darn engine up and running... The best documentation is the Kernel HOWTO. It describes many different situations and details steps much more than I did. Google will know where it is. :) > Reply to my work address if you have time, thanks in advance... You can encourage this by using the Reply-To: header. :) > Robert Walsh U.S. Probation Office Bob_Walsh@nep.uscourts.gov -- http://www.wirex.com/
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