On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:09:46 -0400 Ryan Sims wrote: > On 8/31/07, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:41:19 -0400 > > Ryan Sims wrote: > > > > > On 8/31/07, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Really, I like to read people's opinion about genkernel, but no > > > > one has tried to answer my question yet. > > > > > > In my first reply, I suggested looking at a diff between your > > > config and genkernel's config. How did that turn out? > > > > Mmm... I though I answered that. > > at conceptual level, I did a gunzip and moved original 2.6.12 > > genkernel's /proc/config.gz to .config and then, make oldconfig in > > new 2.6.21 sources dir (/usr/src/linux link dir). > > > > So, I should do a diff between my new .config after make oldc onfig, > > and currently config generated by genkernel... but has it sense? I > > mean, what differneces could be between them? > > That's what we're trying to find out. If the diff comes up empty, > we'll have to look elsewhere, but it's easy to check.
afrodita ~ # cp /usr/src/linux/.config config-2.21 afrodita ~ # head config-2.21 # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 # Wed Aug 29 21:57:06 2007 # CONFIG_X86_32=y CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST=y afrodita ~ # cd /usr/src/linux afrodita ~ # uname -a Linux afrodita 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 #1 SMP Sat Aug 26 23:59:18 CEST 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux afrodita linux # zcat /proc/config.gz > .config afrodita linux # zcat /proc/config.gz > .config afrodita linux # head .config # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 # Sat Aug 26 23:44:30 2006 # CONFIG_X86_32=y CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y afrodita linux # make oldconfig (all default options marked). afrodita linux # head .config # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 # Sat Sep 1 16:40:04 2007 afrodita linux # cp .config /root/config-2.12 afrodita ~ # head -n 5 config-2.12 # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 # Sat Sep 1 16:33:04 2007 # afrodita ~ # head -n 5 config-2.21 # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 # Wed Aug 29 21:57:06 2007 # afrodita ~ # diff config-2.21 config-2.12 4c4 < # Wed Aug 29 21:57:06 2007 --- > # Sat Sep 1 16:33:04 2007 so, both configs have same options. > One thing...are you actually going from 2.6.12 to .21? Or is that a > typo? not a typo, going from 2.6.12 to 2.6.21. > While you're rebooting, see if you can get your new kernel to panic > again at boot, write down the error, and post it. > I'm compiling the kernel again for seeing the panic. Cheers, Arnau -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
