did you do 'make mrproper' between the compiles when it didn't work? it cleans up so it should be like a newly emerged tree.
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 16:02, daniel wrote: > On June 23, 2003 08:53 am, Frank Hellmuth wrote: > > I noticed today that I have linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r3, -r4 and -r5 sources > > on my hard disk, working and backup kernel are both r5. > > > > or are the old versions (or at least the headers) still needed? > > > > If it's OK to clean them, why doesn't portage do it by itself when > > updating? > > to be honest, i don't entirely understand what the sources are for. i know > they're required to build a module, but i don't know what files are needed, > or where the modules sit once compiled. but what i do know is this: > > a while back i compiled my kernel (a few times actually) and it kept panicking > on boot. so i took a shot and did the following: > > # emerge --unmerge gentoo-sources > # rm -r /usr/src/* > # emerge gentoo-sources > # cd /usr/src/linux > # make menuconfig (or copy old .config back in) > # make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install > # mount /boot/ > # rm /boot/bzImage > # cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/ > # reboot > > and all worked out. i'm pretty sure if i just blew away all of the sources > without re-emerging and recompiling, i'd be in trouble, but the above offered > me no problems. > > ...too bad it looks like a windows solution. some detailed explanation on the > usefulness of the kernel sources would be greatly appreciated. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
