On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always > been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in > 10+ yrs.. > > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. > > So I'm back in the soup. > [I hope what I try to layout below is not overly confusing] > > (After install of gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r4) > > I started with `make oldconfig' > Moved from that to `make menuconfig'...
There's no reason to use menuconfig after running oldconfig, If your old kernel was using all of the hardware, then the new kernel should, too, just with oldconfig. Volker makes an excellent point. Support for your disk controller and for your file system(s) must be built into the kernel unless you use initrd to load those modules *before* the kernel tries to mount /. That's a pain and isn't necessary for most machines because you know in advance what hardware you have and which file systems you use. (But your kernel doesn't know in advance unless the right drivers are compiled in ;o)
