Building a custom Redhat kernel

[Net Llama!]

On 12/11/2005 05:43 AM, David Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> OK, I'm frustrated.
> 
> I need to build a custom RH kernel (actually it's a Whitebox Linux 3.0
> distro).  Client insists on using this distro, but needs virtual

Not that it matters, but are you sure its not Whitebox 4?  I thought 
that Whitebox was based off of RHEL versioning, in which case 
RHEL4=2.6.9 kernel.

> servers (hence a patch).
> 
> Problem:
> Original kernel is 2.6.9-smp-EL.  Patch only supports 2.6.12.4. 
> Building 2.6.12.4 w/ or w/o patch results in kernel panic (I've tried
> initrd and compiling in required modules with the same results).
> 
> Problem is use of GRUB (no LILO! not even as an option), and
> /etc/fstab and GRUB use of root=LABEL=/ nonsense.  I can't see how the
> system knows /dev/sda3 == /.
> 
> Either there's a patch to the kernel to support this LABEL nonsense or
> a way to reconfigure to boot without it (although altering both the
> GRUB boot line and /etc/fstab only change where the system stops). 
> But apparently, this is not as easy as would seem (and I can't seem to
> find a kernel patch for the LABEL stuff).

Editing fstab & grub.conf always worked for me.  What exactly does this 
kernel panic look like, and how exactly are you altering grub.conf and 
fstab?


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