Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-29 Thread Sami Samhuri
* On Thu May-26-2005 at 02:28:25 PM +, James said: [...] > So using make install a syntax sequence would look like this? > > make menuconfig > make && make modules_install > cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r9 > cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r9 > cp .c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-27 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > > >>make menuconfig >>make && make modules_install && make install > > >>is easier and accomplishes the same, and also updates the vmlinuz and >>vmlinuz.old symlinks in /boot, removing the need to alter your grub >>config. > > > > O

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-27 Thread Matthew Cline
> OK, I but often I like to keep the older kernel versions and grup entries > around for a while to test the differences in the various kernels. Won't > this approach overwrite entries in grub or does it just make another > entry? Some of my grub.conf files get pretty ugly... My expeirence with u

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-27 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > make menuconfig > make && make modules_install && make install > is easier and accomplishes the same, and also updates the vmlinuz and > vmlinuz.old symlinks in /boot, removing the need to alter your grub > config. OK, I but often I like to keep the olde

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-27 Thread James
Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > you need to be in /usr/src/linux - and I think make help is a 2.6 thing, > not 2.4 Yes. > yes, see under system admin in the kde control centre, however i have > been told this kde applet does not work well on gentoo. also on my > system it tells me that it d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Luis Morales
Just try with genkernel tool. Nick Rout wrote: >On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 14:07 +, James wrote: > > >>Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: >> >> >> >> >>>make help lists the config tools >>> >>> >>Surely you jest? >> >> > >no i wouldn't make the same suggestion twice to be ignored or m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 14:07 +, James wrote: > Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > > > > make help lists the config tools > > Surely you jest? no i wouldn't make the same suggestion twice to be ignored or make a joke (LOL make joke ?) you need to be in /usr/src/linux - and I think make help is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread neil
Neil Bothwick wrote: make && make modules_install && make install make && make modules_install install works just as well and is simpler still. ;) In fact, I go one step further with: make && make modules_install install && reboot ;) Be lucky, Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 May 2005 14:28:25 + (UTC), James wrote: > So using make install a syntax sequence would look like this? > > make menuconfig > make && make modules_install > cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r9 > cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r9 > cp .config

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread James
Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: > I've actually been upgrading within a series (gentoo-sources, -r6 to > -r8), and across series (to ck-sources and mm-sources)... and been > paying attention closely to this exact issue when I did so. > And what I noticed is that when I switched the symlink and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 May 2005 14:07:30 + (UTC), James wrote: > > make help lists the config tools > > Surely you jest? > > 'make --h' only lists options on my gentoo system: 'make --h' != 'make help' Try: cd /usr/src/linux make help -- Neil Bothwick I've seen the procedure hundreds of times. - Q

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread James
Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > make help lists the config tools Surely you jest? 'make --h' only lists options on my gentoo system: bash-2.05b$ make -h Usage: make [options] [target] ... Options: -b, -m Ignored for compatibility. -B, --always-make Unconditi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 02:34 +, James wrote: > Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > > > > make help > > > > and i thinks its oldconfig, not oldmenuconfig ? > > yep now I know it's past my bedtime > > Any cool tools for building kernels? > > menuconfig seems quite arcane.. make he

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread James
Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > make help > > and i thinks its oldconfig, not oldmenuconfig ? yep now I know it's past my bedtime Any cool tools for building kernels? menuconfig seems quite arcane.. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list