On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Andrew Z <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Tom H <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Andrew Z <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Tom H <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Andrew Z <[email protected]> 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?
