Re: Linux 2.2.14

[Jon Elson <jmelson-at-artsci.wustl.edu>]

Ian Wright wrote:

> I've been trying for a couple of weeks to sort this out but so far I've had
> no success. Using the prepatched 2.2.14 kernel from fsmlabs I get it to work
> as far as 'make bzImage' and then it gives me a load of errors and gives up.

Why are you attempting to apply a patch to a PREPATCHED kernel?
That should mean it has already been done!

> Patching  a fresh kernel myself failed to work also - in exactly the same
> way. I'm trying to put it on a P133 machine which is running Mandrake 7
> (which I believe is based on RedHat 6.1). I had just about given up with it
> but you have raised another spark - I'll try again and see what the errors
> are, maybe that will give someone a clue as to the problem.

The problems I had run into with earlier kernels was that Red Hat modifies
some of the kernel .h files, so the patches are not compatible with them.
Apparently, putting the original kernel .h files back, by downloading them from
the Linux web site, allows the kernel to be patched correctly, and doesn't
cause any problems with Red Hat, either.  I do not know what the differences
are.

Jon