Harry Putnam wrote: > hamilton <hamil...@pobox.com> writes: > > >> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:18 -0800, walt <w41...@gmail.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 :-) :-)
