How do I recompile the kernel?

[Jeremy Thompson]

On 2/13/06, Neil Cherry <ncherry at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 23:14 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote:
> >> URL source:
> >> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/errata/#sn-kernel
> >>
> >> This has to be the dumbest question I can ask. I've googled and
> >> I found all sorts of way to compile the kernel for Fedora.
> >> Unfortunately they all seem to be wrong or missing details.
> >> So how does one build an FC4 kernel?
> >>
> >> Kernel: 2.6.15-1.1831 (kernel & kernel-devel)
> >>
> > Download and install the src rpm from
> >
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4.src.rpm
> > then compile to your heart's content.
>
> ARGH! It official, I'm an a**! Honest I've been trying to compile
> this kernel for a while and I've been getting all sorts of errors
> and stuff has been put all over the place (hmm, I did remove the
> .rpmmacro file too). Anyway, I did downloaded the src and I have
> yum download both (I need Moxa drivers). I think half the
> problem is that I messed things up and the other half is that
> there is too much wrong or outdated info on Google. Here's
> what I did so far:
>
> wget
>
> ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4.src.rpm
> rpm -ihv ~/kernel-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4.src.rpm
>
> # cd ../BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12/
>
> cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec
> cd ../BUILD/kernel-2.6.15/linux-2.6.15/
> make xconfig
> make rpm
>
> And when it's done I'll do this:
>
> cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
> rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.15prep-1.i386.rpm
> cd /boot
> mkinitrd initrd-2.6.15-prep.img 2.6.15-prep
>
> Thanks for the help and I hope that others find the above useful.
> If it's incorrect I'll post the corrections (for my sanity as
> well as others).


You know I wanted to ask this question a few days ago.. thanks for taking
the bullet for me.  This is exactly what I needed.  I have another question
though.  If you needed to patch.  WHere would it go in the process?  Where
would you issue the 'patch -pl' command?

Thanks.

JT


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