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8 – Red Hat Linux Driver Installation Building an SMP Kernel

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Linux 6.2 kernel (versions 2.2.14-5.0 and 2.2.14-6.1) is installed on your system,

perform the procedure in section 8.5.2 to build an SMP kernel.

8.5.1

Building an SMP Kernel for Red Hat Linux 6.0 or 6.1

Building an SMP kernel is necessary if you are creating an SMP version of the

QLogic Red Hat Linux driver for Red Hat Linux 6.0 or 6.1.

Perform the following steps to create and build an SMP kernel.

1. Extract the kernel-headers and kernel-sources RPM files from CD 1 of the

Red Hat Linux distribution. For example:

rpm -iv kernel-headers*.rpm

rpm -iv kernel-sources*.rpm

2. Change to the Linux source directory. For example:

cd /usr/src/linux

3. Prepare for a new kernel using the make mrproper command. For

example:

make mrproper

4. Create a bootable kernel image. For example:

make def;make clean;make boot

If you receive a message indicating that the kernel is too large, try

compressing the image. For example:

make def;make clean;make bzImage

5. Copy the kernel image to the boot directory. For example:

cd arch/i386/boot

cp bzImage /boot/newsmp

6. Modify the /etc/lilo.conf file to make the boot loader load the new

image. For example:

image=/boot/newsmp

label=newsmp

root=/dev/hda5

read-only

The above example makes the boot loader load the new kernel image

(newsmp) in the /boot directory and mounts the root partition using

device /dev/hda5.

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