On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Dushan Mitrovich wrote: > Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Dushan Mitrovich wrote: > > > >> I have Sl 4.2, whose kernel is 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL, and am trying, so far un- > >> successfully, to recompile it to provide HPFS support for the OS/2 file > >> system. To help me try to figure out the problem I downloaded the kernel > >> source rpm to get at the kernel-2.6.spec file, but in my optimism got the > >> version for 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL instead (thinking I might as well ugdate). > >> > >> Now I'm wondering whether this was a mistake, because the kernel release > >> numbers may need to match exactly for a 'build' operation. Is that the > >> case? > > > > Build what? > > What I meant was concoct a new, updated kernel. Maybe I should have said > 'rpmbuild', but I'm not sure of the terminology. > > > If you have created the kernel source tree via the > > 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.src.rpm then you will end up with a 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL > > kernel. > > Yes, that's my understanding, but I haven't created that source tree yet. > Right now all I have is what's in the 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL directory. > > >> I'm only thinking the new 'build' might be necessary because of missing > >> files that the recompile operation calls for, including > >> > >> for 'make mrproper' the file 'Documentation/DocBook/Makefile' > >> > >> and > >> for 'make rpm' \ / the files 'include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h' > >> or 'make bzImage' / \ 'include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h.tmp' > >> \ and 'arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' > > > > How did you get the kernel source tree out of 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.src.rpm . > > It seems that you are missing things. > > I'm sure I am, and I haven't got the source tree yet, not being sure how to > do it. In fact, do I even need to, to get past the missing files problems? Download the kernel-....src.rpm for the kernel you want to build. They are located at ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/SRPMS/vendor/errata/ Read the instructions that are part of /usr/share/doc/sl-release*/RELEASE-NOTES-x86_64-en or RELEASE-NOTES-x86-en Note the special instructions for just making a kernel module. -connie > > >> Any guidance to help me complete the recompile would be mightily appre- > >> ciated. You can no doubt tell that I'm a linux neophyte. > > > - Dushan Mitrovich >