Re: Compiling/installing a new Kernel

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, fredex wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 09:20:10PM -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
>> Further to my last message regarding compiling and installing a new kernel
>> in TAO-Linux ,  I forgot to mention that the grub file shows
>> the exisiting kernels as having an 'EL' at the end of their
>> name...  (2.4.21-37.0.1.EL)
>>
>> I tried to install 2.4.32 and that is what I called it, including the .img
>> statement.   No EL used on this kernel and it failed.
>> Is this needed?  Could this be my problem??
>
> The Tao kernel naming convention follows the RH naming convention,
> since Tao is a "clone" of RH Enterprise Linux (EL). The Tao maintainers
> discovered, the hard way, that not following that convention causes
> them headaches, as other things kinda depend on the kernel naming
> convention.
>
> but my guess (not being a kernel expert myself) is that if you're compiling
> a "vanilla" kernel from, e,g., kernel.org, that it is missing all the
> patches RedHat puts in the kernel, and therefore is incompatible with
> other things in the system that depend upon those patches.

Thanks for your note Fred. It is good to know that TAO is following the 
normal naming conventions, as you mentioned above. Which means I have no 
problem with the way I set up the name(s) etc..

Hmmmm.  Than I wonder why it failed.  By the way, I say 'failed' but it 
really didn't just fail and sit there. It actually booted up to completion 
but with lots of errors . And after going through all the errors it 
completed the 'bootup' with all its applications up and trying to run, and 
than it failed.  Kernel panic etc..

Well thanks for your input.  It is appreciated Fred..


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Ted Gervais
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