Hi, as Norman told you, there is already a packaged kernel with all the necessary modules to run on any system.
If you need a stripped down kernel that only supports your hardware for example, and you already have a .config from a previous kernel, you have several options: 1) Manual way: - copy .config from old/current kernel into new kernel folder - update the kernel configuration either way: 1.a) interactively: inside the new kernel folder do "make config" which will keep all of the options from the old .config and ask you interactively to set the new options (with default value and help using the "?" key) 1.b) using automatic default options: inside the new kernel folder do "make olddefconfig" which will keep all of the options from the old .config and set the new options to their recommended (i.e. default) values. - Then compile the kernel, modules and out-of-tree modules with: make modules_prepare make emerge --ask @module-rebuild make modules_install make install - update grub configuration for openrc based system: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg See: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade 2) The genkernel way: genkernel automates the kernel build process and assembles the initramfs. See: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Genkernel Regards, Zentoo Le jeudi 05 décembre 2024 à 10:09 +0100, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea a écrit : > Hi mates, > > I would love using Gentoo as Desktop and Server OS. I used sometime ago, but > it caused me the fact of not being able to upgrade my systems weekly or > daily, because sometimes you needed to upgrade the kernel and I was not > really sure that the config entered for the kernel (loaded through Genkernel > but with menuconfig and there load .config file) that was written with > previous kernel version building was going to not cause something weird or > bad functioning of newer built kernels with that config. > > Does exist a way... where you could emerge world, update all the system, > finally end up by upgrading the kernel and being sure that the old .config > you used through menuconfig (or by any other way of importing) would not > select erroneous parameters in newer kernels?. I though there were some... > lint options for the .cofig?. I think I have used them sometime ago.... > > So for sumarizing, how do you manage for keep your systems up-to-date using > Gentoo?. How do you manage to keep your kernel upgraded?. > > Cheers,
