Re: Kernel Discovery issue

2001-03-21 Thread Jacob Killian
David- Actually, I'm not sure how they've got it setup, but if you run 'make oldconfig' on a fresh RH7 system (with the .config NOT in the source tree), it creates a .config file for you. This .config file seems to my novice eye to reflect the kernel built on install, to which you could then mak

Re: Kernel Discovery issue

2001-03-20 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, David Talkington wrote: >> 'make oldconfig' uses an old .config file to rebuild deps, I think ... >> so you'd need that. Oddly, it doesn't appear that Red Hat distributes >> a .config with their tree, so I can't

Re: Kernel Discovery issue

2001-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, David Talkington wrote: > > 'make oldconfig' uses an old .config file to rebuild deps, I think ... > so you'd need that. Oddly, it doesn't appear that Red Hat distributes > a .config with their tree, so I can't just make a minor modification > to their stock kernel; I have

Re: Kernel Discovery issue

2001-03-20 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Chuck Mead wrote: >On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Ted Hilts blurted out: > >TH>I arranged for a custom built computer for a data base server. >TH>Apparently the kernel was recompiled to provide for special options. If >TH>I were to upgrade the software installation incl

Re: Kernel Discovery issue

2001-03-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, you wrote: > I arranged for a custom built computer for a data base server. > Apparently the kernel was recompiled to provide for special options. If > I were to upgrade the software installation including the kernel I might > lose those options. So my question is this: Ho

Re: Kernel Discovery issue

2001-03-19 Thread Chuck Mead
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Ted Hilts blurted out: TH>I arranged for a custom built computer for a data base server. TH>Apparently the kernel was recompiled to provide for special options. If TH>I were to upgrade the software installation including the kernel I might TH>lose those options. So my quest

Kernel Discovery issue

2001-03-19 Thread Ted Hilts
I arranged for a custom built computer for a data base server. Apparently the kernel was recompiled to provide for special options. If I were to upgrade the software installation including the kernel I might lose those options. So my question is this: How do I look into the system to discover