The kernel has nothing to do with a fedora system, other than that I build the kernels on my fedora machine, and have done so with fedora for many version. The kernels build are single standalone files for use with the g4l project and its boot process. Here is part of the isolinux.cfg file that loads the various kernels that can be used on various hardware combinations. LABEL bz20.4 MENU LABEL ^A: bz20.4 386 build 2.6.20.1 02-21-2007 KERNEL bz20.4 APPEND initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 noacpi LABEL bz21.6 MENU LABEL ^B: bz21.6 386 build 2.6.21.6 07-04-2007 KERNEL bz21.6 APPEND initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 noacpi LABEL bz22.6 MENU LABEL ^C: bz22.6 386 build 2.6.22.6 08-31-2007 KERNEL bz22.6 APPEND initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 noacpi LABEL bz23.14 MENU LABEL ^D: bz23.14 386 build 2.6.23.1 01-14-2008 KERNEL bz23.14 APPEND initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 noacpi LABEL bz24.4 MENU LABEL ^E: bz24.4 386 build 2.6.24.4 03-24-2008 KERNEL bz24.4 APPEND initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 noacpi LABEL bz25.10 MENU LABEL ^F: bz25.10 386 build 07-03-2008 KERNEL bz25.10 APPEND initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 LABEL bz26.6 MENU LABEL ^G: bz26.6 386 build 10-09-2008 KERNEL bz26.6 APPEND initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 LABEL bz27.10 MENU LABEL ^H: bz27.10 386 build 12-18-2008 KERNEL bz27.10 APPEND initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 LABEL bz28.8 MENU LABEL ^I: bz28.8 386 build 03-17-2009 KERNEL bz28.8 APPEND initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 LABEL bz29.4 MENU LABEL ^J: bz29.4 386 build 05-20-2009 KERNEL bz29.4 APPEND initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 LABEL bz30.9 MENU LABEL ^K: bz30.9 386 build 10-05-2009 KERNEL bz30.9 APPEND initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 LABEL bz31.6 MENU DEFAULT MENU LABEL ^L: bz31.6 386 build 11-10-2009 KERNEL bz31.6 APPEND initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 Most hardware works with the latest kernel, but some hardware doesn't, but works with older ones? I have an average of about 10,000 downloads per month of the project, so don't know all the hardware people use. With my all past changes of the Fedora core to the next level, it is just copying the .config from the last build to the new system with the latest kernel.org and building it. I've used the processor option just over the 486 to provide largest level of hardware support. Didn't see a noticable preformance increase using a higher processor in the builds. With the Phenom II system, a build of the kernel with the same .config prompts for changes, and one is for the processor, and it provides only 64 bit options. I'm looking on how to be able to build a kernel in the same fashion. As I mentioned earlier, the new machine can build a kernel from scratch in about 12 minutes, but it would then only work on an x64 CPU. The x86 kernels work for both, and have even used one of the x86 kernels on the x64 machine to do a backup. Perhaps there is some extra things that need to be loaded or configured to allow this. Thanks. Alan Cox had mentioned that this can be done, and I had tried to send a message directly to his address, but got no response. I know one of the kernel developers is Alan Cox, but may not be the same one. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 8,810,597.176 | EINSTEIN 3,228,538.111 | ROSETTA 1,440,256.196 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines