Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

[Dale]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> hamilton <hamilton@×××××.com> writes:
>
>
>> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:18 -0800, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always
>>>> been a problem for me.  I don't remember ever not having a problem, in
>>>> 10+ yrs..
>>>>
>>>> Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me.
>>>>
>>>> So I'm back in the soup.
>>>> [I hope what I try to layout below is not overly confusing]
>>>>
>>>> (After install of gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r4)
>>>>
>> Just checking - but you didn't mention: did you copy the .config to the
>> new kernel src directory?  If not, that would certainly explain the
>> disparity in configuration settings you're seeing.
>>
>>
>
> I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is supposed to
> be incorporated so no I didn't
>
> If I had put .confg into the new sources, then plain make menuconfig
> is what I would have used.
>
> Do you know where the man pages or docs for that stuff is .. its not in
> `man make'
>
> I'd like to check some of that.
>
>
>
>

I always do this:  cp /path/to/old/kernel/.config
/path/to/new/kernel/.config .  Then run make oldconfig and configure all
the new stuff.  I usually answer no to everything but there is
exceptions.  After that, make all && make modules_install and either run
make install or copy it the old fashioned way.  Then edit grub if needed
and reboot. 

Do all that in /usr/src/linux especially the make parts.

It has worked for me for quite a while.  I do have a hiccup every once
in a while but usually something else is wrong.

Dale

:-)  :-)