Schraalhans Keukenmeester wrote:

> I have downloaded the sources for 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4-smp-i686
> Updated everything (yum update, up2date)
>
> Created a new lean and mean .config and ran make all.
>
> Got a warning about the Adaptec SCSI driver Ai7xxx
>
> No other warnings.
> make modules_install : no probs
> make install: complaints about Ai7xxx, ata_piix and the raid5 modules


So, you forgot something, go back and fix it. Hint take a look at the SCSI
device support section.


>
> Search on the net learns more ppl encountered similar stuff.
>
> Went back to old .config (make oldconfig) and lo and behold, even the
> FC4 issued config won't build.
>
> Tried a rebuild with all of the older kernels on my system and same
> problem keeps reoccurring.
>
> tried gcc32 instead of gcc4, no dice.
>
> Anyone who solved this ? Or has a pointer to a must-read on FC4 kernel
> building issues ? (Apart from all the mjmwired.net stuff, read that
> thoroughly, as well as FC4 kernel compile notes from redhat, and of
> course the relevant documents in the Documents directory)

Try these steps (they work just fine with building vanilla kernels);

<apply patches here>
make mrproper
make xconfig
make
make modules_install
make install

$ uname -a
Linux Aspire5000 2.6.16 #1 Thu Mar 23 23:21:36 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
GNU/Linux


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