Re: [CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

2007-10-25 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Optionally, do a "make menuconfig" and tweak the kernel options even more. You may especially want to edit the CONFIG_LOCALVERSION field to reflect the fact that you're building a custom kernel. I prefer to make that field "COMPANYNAME.x" where x is the build number - star

Re: [CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

2007-10-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Apply this patch to the scripts/package/mkspec file (careful, at least one line is wrapped by the Gmane mail archive, so unwrap manually): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/593172 Or just use the patch file attached to this message if the mail archive doesn't w

Re: [CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

2007-10-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Let's say I want to use a much newer kernel - even one from the future, such as the upcoming 2.6.24. :-) What would y'all smart folks do in this case, in order to avoid any possible nasty consequences? Would you import the config file from the original CentOS5 kernel into t

Re: [CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

2007-10-17 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Let's say I want to use a much newer kernel - even one from the future, such as the upcoming 2.6.24. :-) What would y'all smart folks do in this case, in order to avoid any possible nasty consequences? Would you import the config file from the original CentOS5 kernel into t

Re: [CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

2007-10-04 Thread Jim Thario
Florin Andrei wrote: Let's say I want to use a much newer kernel - even one from the future, such as the upcoming 2.6.24. :-) What would y'all smart folks do in this case, in order to avoid any possible nasty consequences? Would you import the config file from the original CentOS5 kernel into t

RE: [CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

2007-10-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Florin Andrei wrote: > > Let's say I want to use a much newer kernel - even one from > the future, > such as the upcoming 2.6.24. :-) What would y'all smart folks > do in this > case, in order to avoid any possible nasty consequences? > Would you import the config file from the original CentOS

[CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

2007-10-04 Thread Florin Andrei
Let's say I want to use a much newer kernel - even one from the future, such as the upcoming 2.6.24. :-) What would y'all smart folks do in this case, in order to avoid any possible nasty consequences? Would you import the config file from the original CentOS5 kernel into the new kernel, and let