On Jul 26, 2011, at 10:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/26/11 4:27 PM, Kevin K wrote: >> Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an >> older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just the kernel that needs to be >> rebuilt (maybe while installed in a system with a supported CPU)? Or are >> there other components that would cause problems and need to be rebuilt too? > > generically, you'd install the kernel srpm, and modify its rpmbuild > scripts to change the HIGHMEM64G kernel configure option to HIGHMEM4G > ... I would also change the name of this kernel (I'd add -noPAE to it, I > think), and the builder name, then run rpmbuild. > > specifically, I haven't done this in quite a long time, so would have to > figure out the details as I went along.
Thanks. I had worried that there might be some other packages that would have to be updated. Like back in the day when OS's started to target 686's, and a few other packages like glibc would have a 686 version. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
