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From: hamilton <hamilton@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:52:13
Message-Id: ad3ad4728073ec350363d1c3db3d04c0@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup. by walt
1 On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:18 -0800, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
3 >> I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always
4 >> been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in
5 >> 10+ yrs..
6 >>
7 >> Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me.
8 >>
9 >> So I'm back in the soup.
10 >> [I hope what I try to layout below is not overly confusing]
11 >>
12 >> (After install of gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r4)
13
14 Just checking - but you didn't mention: did you copy the .config to the
15 new kernel src directory? If not, that would certainly explain the
16 disparity in configuration settings you're seeing.
17
18 >>
19 >> I started with `make oldconfig'
20 >> Moved from that to `make menuconfig'...
21
22
23 --
24 Jon Hamilton
25 hamilton@×××××.com

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