There is no point in building modules for the Linode kernel. It is compiled statically and will not load modules.

The library article for PV-GRUB should still work; but instead of downloading the sources from kernel.org, follow the CentOS documentation for building a kernel module.

@Vance:

There is no point in building modules for the Linode kernel. It is compiled statically and will not load modules.
@/proc/config.gz [3.9.3-x86_64-linode33:

"]CONFIGMODULES=y I'm pretty sure you can still load modules into the stock linode kernel, although I haven't actually done it in a very long time. AFAIK the vanilla kernel.org sources are all linode is using these days, so that is what you'd want to build modules against. PVGRUB is probably the better option though if you have distro-supplied modules and you don't want to build your own.

You can load modules (Caker has said so before), and they use the stock kernel, but it's probably not worth it. It's probably easier to just use your distro kernel and load the pre-made kernel modules from whatever repo.

Thanks for your responses, I have solved the issue.

I did use the PV-GRUB method to get the default OS kernel to work. Oddly enough I think the kernel is installed on the server by default although I am not completely sure of that. I didn't have to compile the kernel which is quite fortunate.

I found this page:

http://tom-chapman.co.uk/2012/05/25/ins … tos-6-box/">http://tom-chapman.co.uk/2012/05/25/installing-the-default-linux-kernel-on-a-linode-centos-6-box/

But it's old and isn't current, parts of it are not correct. I used that as a starting point and made my own script and got it to work.

I would like to say I wish that Linode would have up to date instructions as I can't imagine I'm the only one that's run across this.

Stephane