Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading kernel from 2.6.25.1to 2.6.26_rc1

[Marko Kocić]

2008/5/14 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>:
> On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Marko Kocić wrote:
>  > Is it a known issue with 2.6.26-rc1 kernel? How could I painlessly
>  > migrate configuration from old 2.6.25 kernel to 2.6.26 without need
>  > for complete reconfiguration?
>  > make menuconfig always keeped current config before, did it change
>  > recently?
>
>  It didn't change that I know of, but one can never tell. I suppose step
>  1 is to check what changed. So, either:
>
>  run make oldconfig
>  or
>  run make menuconfig and rapidly flip through all the screens looking for
>  entries that end with [NEW]

Did that, but I probably missed to reenable something ;) It was a long
time since
the last time I had to configure kernel from scratch, so it is hard to remember
everything.

>  If that doesn't sort stuff out, then you will probably have to inspect
>  the area where you have missing modules more closely and read the help
>  pages. What are these missing modules? Often it's a case of a
>  replacement has a different name, like the b43legacy for Broadcom
>  wireless now has an entirely new b43 intended to replace b43legacy

It might be the case. I don't currently have access to my home laptop,
but there were lots of modules that are missing. Alsa and iptables failed to
start after reboot and I ended up in console screen which is small and
in the center of the screen.

Thanks,
Marko