[sclug] Building a kernel

[Alex Butcher]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Bob Franklin wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Derek M Jones wrote:
> 
> > Does anybody have any recommendations?  There does not seem to be a 
> > switch on everything and build option (there are a few warnings about 
> > probing non-existent hardware during boot).
> >
> > What I really need is a program that probes my hardware and generates a 
> > .config file specifically for it.  Pointers anybody?
> 
> The biggest problem I have is making sure I include enough as static 
> (rather than modules) so the damn thing boots from the SCSI disk which has 
> the root filesystem on it, rather than have the module to run the SCSI 
> card in /lib.

This is what initrd is for. ;-)

> However, it's still nice to compile up your own kernel with the latest
> iptables stuff in it.

Take your kernel's src.rpm (or whatever) and add the patch-o-matic netfilter
code to it. Works for me and keeps things simpler all in all.

>    - Bob

Best Regards,
Alex.
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