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091103 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> building a new kernel has always been a problem for me. |
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> Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. |
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I find it doable with a bit of care (smile). |
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> After install of gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r4 |
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> I started with `make oldconfig' |
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> Moved from that to `make menuconfig' |
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I just installed the same kernel with no problems. |
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I did 'make oldconfig', looking at the '?' help for each new item |
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& deciding whether to say Y/N as seemed appropriate. |
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There wasn't anything dramatically new, |
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so I went straight on to 'gvimdiff .config .config-<previous_kernel>', |
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which allows a careful review of all the differences. |
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There seemed to be nothing outstanding, so I went ahead with 'make', |
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copied it by hand into /boot & updated Lilo; |
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there was a problem, which I reported here, re Nvidia-drivers, |
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but I moved up to a new version & then everything worked as expected. |
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I never compile kernel items as modules if it cb avoided: |
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it's one source of potential pain one can avoid. |
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