[ale] RedHat 7.1 Kernel Upgrade

[Chris Egolf]

Calvin Harrigan wrote:

 > Greetings all,  I am soliciting advice on upgrading the stock kernel of
 > redhat 7.1.   My biggest concern is the fact that they use the 2.96
 > compiler.  From what I understand it doesn't compile the kernel source
 > properly.  Should I upgrade to a newer compiler before a kernel upgrade?
 > Downgrade?  There used to be RPMs available for kernel upgrades but I can't
 >  find them on redhats site.  Has anyone upgraded a kernel on 7.1  if so can
 >  you give a short description of the steps.  You know  upgrade/downgrade
 > compiler, got source code from X, compiled, etc.  Nothing necessarily in
 > detail just an overview.
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 > Calvin
 >

Any recent kernel (2.4.x) works fine.  I haven't tried a 2.2.x kernel w/ the 
rh7.1 compiler, but I suspect that it works as well.  As for upgrading to Redhat 
updated kernels (RPM's) you can find them at:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.1/en/os

I haven't had any problems compiling any version of the 2.4.x kernels w/ Redhat 
7.0, 7.1 or 7.2.  They all seem to work fine. You shouldn't have to do anything 
different.
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