Re: still -- building kernel rpm problem

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Chuck Campbell wrote:
> I didn't hear any response, so I re-downloaded the kernel-2.4.20-24.9.src.rpm
> and tried again.  I still see the same thing during build. (See prior note 
> below).

If the kernel built properly (the make didn't error out), you're
probably fine.  I don't use "rpmbuild", I do the normal configuration,
build cycle:

    make xconfig;make dep clean bzImage modules install modules_install

I don't recall the checksum errors popping up, but the kernel does build
based on the config files included in /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs.

> I'm loathe to reboot w/ the new kernel to try it, because the machine is
> 50 miles away from me, and I can't get there easily to access the console
> to force a boot of the prior kernel.
> Is there a way around this issue for remote machines?

You need one of three things: a remote KVM switch, someone there to
watch it, or set up serial port console operations with either a modem
on the machine's serial port or its serial port connected to another
machine you CAN get at via a null-modem cable.

You can redirect the console output to a serial port and talk to the
machine via a modem or another machine connected to its serial port.
The grub commands are:

	serial --unit=0 --speed-9600
	terminal serial

(see the grub manual for details).  For LILO, the commands are:

	serial=0,9600n8

(see the lilo manual).

> Chuck previously wrote:
>
>
> > I downloaded the recently released kernel-2.4.20-24.9.src.rpm and did an
> > install as root. rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.20-24.9.src.rpm
> >
> > Next I went to the /usr/src/redhat/SPECS directory and did this:
> >
> > rpmbuild -ba --clean --target i686 kernel-2.4.spec
> >
> > during this build I have seen amny occurrences of the following message:
> >
> > 1 of 13 checksums did not match
> >
> > What implications does this have for this build, and what should I do about it?
> >
> >
> > I wanted to build this specifically for the i686 platform, instead of 
> > installing i386 binaries.  This is (ostensibly) for performance reasons.  Is my
> > reasoning all wet?
> >
> > thanks,
> > -chuck


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