Angel Tsankov wrote:
> Has anyone ever managed to build and INSTALL  the 2.6.9-22.EL or 
> 2.6.9-34.EL kernel?!

Yes

> 
> I have attached the script that I use to build and install the kernel. 

This is a fairly detailed script.
Are you adding the XFS, jfs, and reiser kernel module?  or were those 
because of dependancies.
And there is this nice little

   ./runme --batch TTL

partway through the script.  How are we to know this does?

Why don't you take a step back and make sure that

   rpmbuild -ba --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec

actually works.  That way you know that you have everything installed 
that will build the kernel.
Then try

   rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec

like you have, and see if the last part of your script works

cd $KERNEL_DIR
cp configs/kernel-2.6.9-i686.config configs/.config
vi Makefile # change EXTRAVERSION
make oldconfig
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install

If that works, then try putting in your iptables patch, and see if that 
work.


> The "make modules_install" fails with the following message:
> 
> if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map  
> 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL; fi
> /bin/sh: line 1:  6560 Terminated              /sbin/depmod -ae -F 
> System.map 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL
> make: *** [_modinst_post] Error 143
> 

This is just too little output for me to determine what the problem is.

> I have met all the prerequisites  for building the kernel as specified 
> in Documentation/Changes, except probably for oprofile:
> #oprofiled --version
> Couldn't determine kernel version.
> 
> Can anyone help, or should I choose a different distribution? 

Well, it's possible that S.L. 4.x isn't right for what you need.
If you are looking to keep with a RedHat based distro, I would first 
check and see if Fedora Core 5 does what you want.  Because then it has 
a chance of getting into RHEL 5, and then S.L. 5.x
If you don't care about RedHat compatibility, I think Gentoo would be my 
next choice, because it is quite configurable.  And then I'd think of 
Suse, or OpenSuse.  I've heard they've done nice things with their 
firewall, but I've never used it.

Troy
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