CentOS - Jun 2012 - custom kernel build

Hi all,

I have donwloaded 2.6.32.59 from kernel.org,
extracted the source, did make menuconfig to select/deselect items
then did make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install, make install
and rebooted. first message I got was that ext4 was not supported.

So I verified that ext4 was selected and it was. So I looked at the size 
of the
/boot/initramfs* items. My custom one is really small compared to the 
normal one.

My question is - what controls the items that get put in there (the 
initramfs stuff)
when you do a "make install" for a custom kernel?

Clearly it is not picking up the "normal" centos items that are in the
other initramfs files.

Thanks,

Jerry

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com>
wrote:
> Clearly it is not picking up the "normal" centos items that are
in the
> other initramfs files.
Because you did not build the kernel 'CentOS' way:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel

Also, if you are building from a vanilla kernel (kernel.org), you may
want to look at kernel-ml from ELRepo.

Akemi

>
> Because you did not build the kernel 'CentOS' way:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
>
> Also, if you are building from a vanilla kernel (kernel.org), you may
> want to look at kernel-ml from ELRepo.
>
Ok - is there a way to build "just a module" that disables the PAE
code?
I'm running on a smaller CPU.

Thanks,

Jerry