EL4 ES kernel recompile

[Dave Francis]

Hi Ed.

Yeah, I tried the instructions. Initially I had a very slow clock. I added
the noapic, nosmp, nolapic etc, and then my clock was running fast. Tried
the clock=pmtmr ontop of that, and didn't help. 

I cant get the vmware tools to install properly, so I cant sync off the host
clock. Vmware tools cause X to not boot. So my last chance is to try the
hz=100 option.

Did you get the vmware tools installed properly?

Cheers
Dave




-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Greshko [mailto:Ed.Greshko at greshko.com] 
Sent: Monday, 9 May 2005 4:41 p.m.
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: EL4 ES kernel recompile



Dave Francis wrote:
> Hi Guys
>  
> Im trying to recompile the kernel in EL4 ES in order to get the clock 
> running correctly under VMware ESX.
>  
> As Redhat dont provide much info on the process for this under EL4, 
> ive kinda worked blind up to here, and now Im stuck.
> Fresh build.
> First, ive updated (up2date).  (inc Kernel).
> Next I installed the kernel source through up2date. 
> Then I tried a make mrproper, and thats where Im stuck.

I use VMware Workstation and following the instuctions on the VMware site
allowed the clock to work just fine without any changes to the kernel.

Have you tried VMware's workarounds for 2.6 Kernels?


> ************************************
>  
> 
> [root at albns001 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL-i686]# make mrproper
> grep: /usr/include/bits/stat.h: No such file or directory
> scripts/Makefile.clean:10: Documentation/DocBook/Makefile: No such 
> file or directory
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `Documentation/DocBook/Makefile'.
Stop.
> make: *** [_mrproper_Documentation/DocBook] Error 2
> 
> [root at albns001 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL-i686]# pwd
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-5.0.5.EL-i686
> 
> [root at albns001 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL-i686]# uname -a Linux 
> albns001.nzaa.co.nz 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL #1 Fri Apr 8 14:21:35 EDT 2005 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> ********************************
>  
> Has anybody got any ideas about what Im doing wrong?
>  
> All help appreciated.
> Cheers
> Dave
>  
>  
> 
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