Build 2.6.12 on FC4?

[Enrico Scholz]

ndbecker2 at gmail.com (Neal Becker) writes:

> My wireless worked on FC3, but stopped working on FC4.  I want to try
> a stock 2.6.12 kernel.  It doesn't compile the current FC4 gcc.  I
> grabbed the patch linux-2.6.11-compile-fixes.patch, and it compiles.
> But after make, make modules; make modules_install; make install; it
> doesn't boot. Just says can't open console (/dev/console IIRC).

Without initrd, /dev/console and other entries will be missing. This can
be fixed by

| mount --bind / /mnt
| /sbin/MAKEDEV -x -d /mnt/dev console zero random urandom null tty tty{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
| umount /mnt




Enrico
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