[CLUE-Tech] Recompiling RH V7.0 Kernel HowTo - Now Online

[Jim Intriglia]

Greetings All,

I received a number of requests, so I decided to post this information 
online for easy access/reference/links to other resources:

http://jimintriglia.com/Library/notebook/Linux/RHLinux_kernel_compile.shtm

For those CLUE'bies who are kernel Jedi-masters, please let me know about 
any additional kernel compile resources as well as any gaffs I may have made 
that need correcting.

JimI.

>From: "Gordon Forsythe" <baohx_2000 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
>To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
>Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] Recompiling Kernel: RH V7.0 to fix SCSI 
>(Resolved!)
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 03:32:03 -0600
>
>I'm interrested.  Tried recompiling to make use of a raid card a few weeks
>ago, and the whole thing went bad.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Intriglia" <jimintriglia at hotmail.com>
>To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
>Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:14 PM
>Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Recompiling Kernel: RH V7.0 to fix SCSI (Resolved!)
>
>
>Greetings Folks,
>
>Buried up to my eyeballs in the snow up here in Conifer, but that's another
>story.
>
>I've spent the last couple of days hacking away at a kernel recompile on a
>machine that I fresh-installed RH V7.0. Some quick background:
>
>After installing RH V7.0, I noticed that both my SCSI tape drive and Yamaha
>external CD-R/W would generate I/O errors and quit after working for a
>while. While the internal Travan NS20 GB has always been flaky, the Yamaha
>was solid as a rock under RH Linux V6.2.
>
>Match tipped me off that he had a similar problem, which was fixed by a
>kernel recompile with SCSI vendor extensions enabled (thanks Match!). Long
>story short - the kernel recompile did fix the problem I was having with 
>the
>Yamaha CD-R/W (I/O sense errors during fixating) and I suspect the tape
>drive will be OK as well. FYI - My Penguin Computer uses the infamous NCR
>53c810 SCSI controller, which requires SCSI modular support to work OK for
>some odd reason.
>
>Recompiling the kernel under RH V7.0 was anything but straightforward. You
>may have read some about this (kgcc compiler needed instead of gcc V2.96 to
>recompile the kernel via Make). In any event, I was able to figure out how
>to go about recompiling the kernel using RHV7 distro and sources, based on
>info I found all *over the web*. No one document did the trick - all were
>lacking in some way or omitted a key piece of info.
>
>In any event, I am in the process of documenting what I did to recompile 
>the
>kernel under RH V7.0. If you would like a copy of the procedure, drop me an
>email off-list at jimintriglia at yahoo.com and I'll send you a copy. This
>would be a good idea if you have never recompiled a kernel before using Red
>Hat sources.
>
>best,
>
>JimI.
>
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