[TriLUG] customizing Redhat 7.2 kernel-source rpm - IGNORE THIS THREAD

[Peter Long]

OOPS! Feeling very stupid. :)

Did not mean to send this one out again. Very wierd. KMail decided to resend 
an email I wrote months ago. 

BTW: 2.4.9-31 does not solve the problem.  However you idea should work with 
2.4.12 and up. Thanks.

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Peter Long

On Tuesday 16 April 2002 08:17, you wrote:
> Peter Long [petelong at petelong.com] wrote:
> > I did not explain myself properly. I am trying to build the Redhat 7.2
> > kernel from the src.rpm because I am trying to update the Redhat 7.2
> > install RPMS. I need to do this because 2.4.7-10 (the RH7.2 kernel) does
> > not support my RAID controller. Kernels 2.4.12 and up do support it.
> > Unfortunately I only have a Mandrake 8.0 box available to compile the
> > kernel.
> >
> > I am not sure that the Mandrake built 2.4.16 kernel will work well as
> > part of the RH7.2 install. Do you think/know if it will?
>
> Have you checked whether 2.4.9-31 does?  They tend to backport drivers
> when they put out newer kernels.  If it *does*, you should be able to
> just use the updated boot.img (or bootnet.img or whatever) from redhat's
> updates, along with their update disks for new drivers, without building
> a whole new kernel.