On 2/17/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 16:47 +0100, Roberto Malinverni wrote: > Does anybody knows where I can find a descriptions of the use of the > /etc/sysconfig/kernel file and of its syntax? > Googling around I've found some fragments of information, but really not > much. > The file should be involved in determining the default kernel flavour when > installing a new one, in the selection of kernel modules during the initrd > cration, and so on. Should it really do all that? Mine's just go things like this in it: # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make # new kernels the default UPDATEDEFAULT=yes # DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel That's the whole file, by the way. That looks more like something YUM or GRUB pays attention to. I'd expect the files like /boot/config-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 to have more to do with creating new kernel modules, etc.
I had a question related to kernel configuring and stuff. Since the topic has come up here, I'll chime in. I want to run Xen on Fedora Core 6. The default Xen kernel in Fedora comes PAE enabled, but I don't want that and so have to disable it. I've figured how to recompile my own kernel based on Fedora's kernel but with PAE disabled (following the instructions at this link: http://felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2007/02/04/netbsd-31-under-xen-303/). What concerns me, however, is that its quite possible in the near future an updated kernel is released by Fedora and that would over-write my default kernel. So I'd like to know what steps I can take to prevent this ... Is it possible I can tell Fedora not to update my kernel, but instead inform me of the availability of a newer one so I can compile one from source. Is it possible I can set some option somewhere so Fedora automatically compiles newer kernels for me with PAE disabled? Regards, Rakhesh
