 | | | RH ES 2.1 and kernel 2.6 | RH ES 2.1 and kernel 2.6 2004-03-02 - By Arjan van de Ven
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On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 23:41, Adam Williams wrote:
> Hi, has anyone been able to get kernel 2.6 to compile on RH ES 2.1? If
> so, would you mind lending me a hand? I was able to compile from source
> rpms from redhat 8 and others on rpmfind.net to bring the versions of
> all the required software packages (binutils, e2fs-utils, mod-utils,
> etc) to what 2.6 requires, but I am unable to get make bzImage to
> compile. I am getting errors. I need kernel 2.6 on the server so that
> I can have smbmount support for files >2 GB. The error I get is
> fs/proc/array,c:398 confused by earlier errors, bailing out. thanks!
yup you can 't compile 2.6 kernels with gcc 2.96 basically.
Also expect a really painful experience even when you do mange to get a
kernel build; the as2.1 userspace isn 't adjusted to 2.6 at all...
(it might work for some stuff but generally I expect a lot of subtle
things to just fall appart)
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