Re: recompiling kernels in Red Hat 7.2

["Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA" <randy.flood@scott.af.mil>]

Because my friend Dan was having problems, I decided to recompile the
kernel myself.  Now, if I really wanted to use the kernel, I would have
upgraded to a slightly newer version.  However, since it was just to
prove that it worked, I used the Kernel headers and kernel source that
came on the Red Hat 7.2 machine.  I used a machine that had just had a
fresh install of Red Hat 7.2 with no updates yet (and is not in the net,
in case you are wondering...)

Anyway, I used "make oldconfig" to select the same options as the
current kernel. Then I sucessfully compiled and installed the new
kernel... well, once I removed that typo that I put in /etc/grub.conf...
:) 

It all worked well.  I think Dan's problem was that he selected the
wrong processor-type for his machine. As he claims that he did a make
oldconfig and then went in and just changed the processor type and still
had the init problem.

So, in the end, I guess its PEBCAK.

Randy

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Pritchard [mailto:steve@silug.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 5:50 PM
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
Subject: Re: recompiling kernels in Red Hat 7.2


On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:26:50PM -0600, Eric Peterson wrote:
> I just tried to recompile the kernel myself with the gcc that came
with 
> 7.2 and it did the exact same thing.

What kernel, and what *exactly* happened?

Steve
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