[TriLUG] Kernel Question

[Roberto J. Dohnert]

Hey Kevin, that brings me to a question.  Do you guys ever plan to do a
RHEL for the Sparc processor family, I have 23 machines at work that are
SPARC based and we have had to hunt, scrounge, jury rig anything to put
Linux on them.  The discussion at our last IT meeting was to switch em
back to Solaris.  If Red Hat doesn't plan to support the Sparc anymore,
what would be a good Linux distro to put on there, that's up2date?

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Kevin Sonney
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 10:11 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Kernel Question

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Mark Fowle <mark at thefowles.com> writes:
> I am trying to build a new kernel (RHLE 3) - This was a fresh install,
> so I run make oldconfig, made a change to the .config file to include
> TUN -- did make dep, clean, bzImage and then make modules.  It failed.
> I cleared it all (make clean, the make mrproper), make oldconfig and
> tried to build the existing kernel without any modifications and it
too
> fails in the make modules stage.  Am I missing something?

If you're looking for the tun tunneling module, it's in the
kenrle-unsupported package, which is not installed by default. Kernel
unsupporte dis the palce where we (red Hat) put kernel modules that are
currently unmaintained upsytream or not stable enough to be supported by
the
Gobal Support Services staff. 

That being said, the process for rebuilding any Red Hat (RHL, RHEL,
Fedora) kernel is pretty much the same. These steps assume you're
running the same version you wish to compile :

1) install the kernel-source rpm
2) cd /usr/src/linux-2.4
3) make mrproper
4) cp configs/config-2.4.x-arch.config ./.config (where x and arch are
the
   kenrel version and your arch, respectively)
5) make oldconfig dep bzImage modules
6) make modules_install
7) cp arch/i386/boot?bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r)custom
8) mkinitrd /boot/initrd-$(uname -r)CUSTOM.img $(uname -r)custom
9) modify grub.conf to include the new kernel and initrd
10) double check everything!!
11) Reboot into the new kenrel

Full disclosure - I work for Red Hat. If you run your own compiled RHEL
kernel, Red Hat sill not support you while running that kernel. Any
issues would ahve to be duplicated using the kernel Red Hat provides and
has tested.  This email message does not mean our suppoort services will
help you if this breaks. Etc, Etc.

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