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?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Fowle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. - -- - ---------------------------------- - -- Kevin Sonney -- - ---------------------------------- 1024D/320C 0336 3BC4 13EC 4AEC 6AF2 525F CED7 7BB6 12C9 I Had a Coupon! -- Gir -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFAHRcNUl/O13u2EskRAkyFAJ9jHB/3TnPStZxFdAZCF0dwMDdfSQCaAkAQ T0RKmMdc9rg5lW4ZScOtZJ4= =HI57 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
