Excellent! Thank you very much Akemi. I was browsing through the spec file
and encountered all those sections that you wrote up in the wiki. I did not
wish to dig through all those details to figure out how to spec file works.
Your recipe is exactly what I need! Thanks!
A short followup: You have a warning at the beginning of the wiki that it
is almost not necessary to build a custom kernel. My problem is that I need
a kernel that's able to mount a squashfs fs on a loop device during boot-up.
The standard kernel has both squashfs and loop as .ko. I believe I need
them built-in. If I'm wrong, please advise.
Thanks again!
Ken
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Ken Teh <t...@anl.gov> wrote:
A simple question: I'd like to rebuild the current kernel rpm with minor
mods to the config. The procedure I'm following is what's documented for
RHEL 4, that is,
install the src.rpm
do an rpmbuild -bp
cd to /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-<vers>/linux-<vers>/
make menuconfig
to create the custom .config. At this point, how do I fold the .config that
I generate back in so I can simply say 'rpmbuild -ba' and have it generate
the kernel rpms with my mods?
There is a well-written CentOS wiki on how to build custom kernels.
The instructions are based on CentOS-5 but there are notes whenever
the procedures differ for CentOS-4.
One important thing is that you do not want to do the building as
root. This is a dangerous practice even if you are an experienced
user (mistakes can happen).
Akemi
