Re: Why use Red Hat's kernels?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:30:47AM -0500, shane c branch wrote:
> Steve Snyder wrote:
> 
> >I usually build my own kernels, and run them on an otherwise all-RedHat 
> >system.  The recent failure of a GLibC update to run on anything other 
> >than a recent RH kernel brings a question to mind: why would I want to 
> >run a Red Hat kernel?
> >
> >There's the convenience factor, of course, but stable kernel releases (I 
> >don't run the testing versions) are infrequent, so not much time is spent 
> >building them.
> >
> >What are the benefits of running RH's kernels as opposed to the 
> >plain-vanilla current stable kernel?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
> i used to build my own kernels, but since moving to rh9 i have been 
> confounded by the initrd.img. i can't seem to get that portion of the 
> build to work, so my stock kernels don't boot.
> 
> i haven't had much luck with building the initrd.img manually, either.
> 
What command did you use to build initrd.img (which is not the right
name) manually? inittd.img files names would normally show up with
the kernel version in their names.
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