Re: difficulty recompiling RHEL 4.2 kernel

Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lenard wrote:
It sounds like you maybe forgot to "prep" the source before;

After installing the kernel source you need to do;

Hold: what is in /usr/src/kernels is precisely that "prepped"
directory, with the default config files in an appropriate
subdirectory.

As Nico Kedel-Garcia suggested instead of the 'make modules_install'
and 'make install' commands you can use the 'make rpm' command.

Then use "rpm -i" on the resulting kernel RPM to install it *as well
as* your existing kernel, instead of to replace it. Trust me on
this part, you don't want to do an "rpm -U" or "rpm -F" and replace
the existing kernel until you've had a chance to test it.

Okay, thanks Nico, I'll make sure I don't replace the working kernel
until after testing the new one. But I wonder whether the new info
in my earlier response to you alters any procedires.

- Dushan

Right now, can you use the "make oldconfig" commands, or "cp
/boot/config-[yourkernel] .config; make oldconfig" to get the kernel source
tree straightened out?


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