I want to recompile my kernel and want to add ntfs partition (i know how to do it but having some problem)

when i run "make clean" command i get error

here is my total output
/*

[root@localhost 2.6.18-53.el5-xen-i686]# make clean
scripts/Makefile.clean:17: /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.el5-xen-i686/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.el5-xen-i686/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile'. Stop.
make[2]: *** [drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers/infiniband] Error 2
make: *** [_clean_drivers] Error 2
[root@localhost 2.6.18-53.el5-xen-i686]# pwd
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.el5-xen-i686

*/

After that
then i run make menuconfig command and save .config file
then when i run make command
i get this error

[root@localhost 2.6.18-53.el5-xen-i686]# make
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `init/main.o', needed by `init/built-in.o'. Stop.
make: *** [init] Error 2



Please dont make wild guess and really help me .

This may not be the worst way to appeal for help, but I'm sure it's near the top.

We need more information. At this point, it's not even clear that you have a good copy of the kernel source. Where did you get it? What distro are you running? Have you ever compiled a kernel before? Are you using some kernel compile checklist tailored for your distro or are you just typing make and hoping for the best? At this point, all we can say is that make doesn't seem to like whatever makefile it finds.

Just a wild guess - don't know if it'll really help you, but...

You don't have the kernel sources installed. Download the kernel src.rpm, install it and try again.

http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/0...prise-linux-4/

Dave

But then, you knew this already:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-issue-679337/

I am already in the source directory that means i have the source
/usr/src/kernel/kernelversion/src files
(We dont need src rpm always to build the kernel)

You don't have the sources. You have the kernel-devel package. This is enough to build out-of-tree modules (like the nVidia graphics module), but it's not enough to rebuild a kernel, which is what you're trying to do.

Dave

So how and from where to get the source . Are you talking about rpm.src ??? Please help

The RedHat source RPMs are here:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linu...r/en/os/SRPMS/

As far as I'm aware, these instructions should still work:
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/0...prise-linux-4/

Never tried it myself - I generally used the latest vanilla kernel if I'm going to bother building from source.

Dave

Thanks you are a genius