i haven't had time to dig into this and probably won't until this
weekend, but has anyone "git pull"ed the kernel source tree onto an
install of RHEL 6.0 Beta2, and simply built a generic kernel that
rebooted properly? i've tried it and had different, fatal errors
depending on whether i started with a "make defconfig" or used the
RHEL-supplied config file as a starting point.
i'll document this in more detail when i get a chance to get back to
it but here's my scenario:
* gateway nv52 (64-bit) laptop
* RHEL 6.0 beta2 installed (rhel-beta.repo edited and repo
enabled, and yum updated so that slightly newer kernel
installed)
* stock rhel 6.0 beta2 runs fine
* install based on LVM so that /boot is primary ext4, but rest
of install is
* LV for /
* LV for /home
* "git pull"ed kernel source tree
* "make defconfig" just to see if this would work
* "make" works
* "make modules_install" works
but:
* "make install" blows up, complaining about multiple missing
modules, not sure what that's all about
also, i tried to use the RHEL-supplied config file as a starting point
with "make oldconfig", which let me install but fails to boot,
complaining about not finding the root device.
i'm thinking this has something to do with the fact that my root fs
is on a logical volume but if someone has the time, could you try to
reproduce this? in a nutshell, try
* install (64-bit) RHEL 6.0 beta 2
* yum update it, just for consistency
* git clone latest kernel source
* try to build a new kernel that boots
i'll try to provide more details later, but i suspect there's
something simple i'm overlooking. thanks for any pointers.
rday
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