On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Andrew Z <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Tom H <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Andrew Z <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Tom H <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Andrew Z <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  so how do i modify the kernel and recompile it in SL6?
>>>>
>>>> What steps are you following?
>>>>
>>>> Anything different or missing compared to
>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
>>>
>>> aha! looks like the guide i need. On my own i pretty much completed
>>> everything up to "Configure Kernel Options" section of the guide.
>>> Thank you Tom i'll give it a try tonight.
>>
>> You're welcome. Good luck.
>
> Last night finally got to this.
> I followed the guide Tom shared. The only difference was that i did
> everything using mock. All-in-all it was smooth sailing. The only change i
> made to the current kernel config was compiling USB as module.
> Compilation took over 2 hours.
> Today i installed this modified kernel and.. well, i have vlc, mplayer
> showing some movies; firefox playing some youtube,; yum updating packages
> and me clicking with the mouse on the screen hoping for it to go kaboom...
> So far ( 2 hours now ) it's still going all right.
>
> Oh, well, i just hope it will be stable.
> Thank you Tom!

You're welcome; I'm glad that it eventually worked out.

Out of curiosity, why did you use mock? Are you more familiar with it
than with rpmbuild or was there a particular reason?