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2. I've tried to configure my kernel on another box to support compiling modules without symbol versioning, and i get kernel version mismatches (due to the "custom" on the end of the EXTRAVERSION).
A quick follow-up to the above information: if i install on a non-RAID hard disk in the same system, the iteraid driver i built from a running Fedora Core 1 system works fine. So there must be something different about the installer kernel and runtime kernel work.
Paul