091103 Harry Putnam wrote: > building a new kernel has always been a problem for me. > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me.
I find it doable with a bit of care (smile). > After install of gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r4 > I started with `make oldconfig' > Moved from that to `make menuconfig' I just installed the same kernel with no problems. I did 'make oldconfig', looking at the '?' help for each new item & deciding whether to say Y/N as seemed appropriate. There wasn't anything dramatically new, so I went straight on to 'gvimdiff .config .config-<previous_kernel>', which allows a careful review of all the differences. There seemed to be nothing outstanding, so I went ahead with 'make', copied it by hand into /boot & updated Lilo; there was a problem, which I reported here, re Nvidia-drivers, but I moved up to a new version & then everything worked as expected. I never compile kernel items as modules if it cb avoided: it's one source of potential pain one can avoid. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
