| brent timothy saner on 6 Jul 2008 20:35:46 -0700 |
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Brian Vagnoni wrote: > Hi All; > > Having some fun here with kernel recompilation. I have the default working 2.6.25 kernel booting up just fine. I want to add and delete some options and then recompile. However when I go to /usr/src/linux I find no .config file. So what I'm planning on doing is loading the /boot/config-2.6.25.x-default and using that as my starter config. > this is why everyone needs to do at least one gentoo install. you do know that: make menuconfig generates the .config FOR you, and is the preferred way of going about it, don't you? it's got an ncurses interface too. it's really not that scary. > Assume I have full x access. > > From /usr/src/linux > > cp /boot/config.xxxxxx .config.bak > make mrproper > make (bah)config ; edit said good known working config then save > (make dep is no longer needed) > make clean > make all > make modules_install install > > reboot > i don't know if SuSE uses grub, but grub lets you use multiple kernels. that way if you b0rk3d something while making your new one, you at least have the old, unpatched/unchanged kernel to fall back on. > > Or use diff to compare the 2 files, edit and recomplile? won't work, since the kernel is a binary file. if you had two .configs, it'd work, but since you don't AND since it's more recommended to build .configs from scratch via make menuconfig anyways... > > Or just edit the good known config for the options I want to change and recompile? do the above, and this. keep a copy of the good as a backup. have them all sperate GRUB entries. -- brent saner. gpg info at http://www.notebookarmy.org/gpg.txt (this is a shorter sig.) grep -i hotchicks * Attachment:
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