Re: Rebuilding the installation kernel

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber rochester rr com>]

"William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123" wrote:
> 
> Hi, Matt,
> 
>      Of all the answers I got to my origional post, you came the closest
> to understanding what I am looking for.  The build doesn't fail, but I
> need help setting the version name so the modules will load.  I need it to
> say something like 2.2.16-22BOOT.  Any help you could provide would be
> appreciated by all the users of Speakup and RedHat.
> 
>           TIA.
>           Bill in Denver

Bill,

I'm not sure if this will work or not, as there is probably something
more than just the name of the kernel that is required to match. In
/usr/src/linux/Makefile very near the top, you will find some lines like
this:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 2
SUBLEVEL = 18
EXTRAVERSION = p13

If you want vmlinuz-2.2.16-22BOOT change these lines to read:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 2
SUBLEVEL = 16
EXTRAVERSION = -22BOOT

and recompile the kernel. I don't recommend it, as it's a lie. But it
might work for you.

Chris Kloiber