Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel (kcore)?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:58:58
Message-Id: 201002101458.26620.joost@antarean.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] old kernel (kcore)? by James
1 On Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:51:26 James wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 >
5 > I booted up an old system off our a minimal 2006.1 cd
6 >
7 >
8 > I'm looking for the kernel to copy it.
9 >
10 >
11 > Is it this kcore file?
12 >
13 > proc # file kcore
14 > kcore: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style,
15 > SVR4-style, from 'vmlinux'
16 >
17 >
18 >
19 > If not does somebody know what the name, or the location (on the x86 2006.1
20 > minimal cd0 would be?
21 >
22 > the .config file used to create the kernel would be of keen interest to me
23 > too.
24 >
25 > thx,
26 > James
27 >
28
29 Not sure where the kernel-image is on the CD, but have a look in the ISOLINUX
30 directory?
31
32 As for the ".config", I think the kernels used by Gentoo all have the
33 /proc/config.gz option active.
34 Eg. to get the config, do the following:
35 zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
36
37 HTH,
38
39 Joost