Re: Sarge .config mismatch?
Hello
Chris Phillips (<xhrisphillips@yahoo.com.au>) wrote:
> I have just installed Sarge with the 2.4.27 kernel
> (2.4.27-2-386). I have been having a lot of trouble
> building custom kernels. I have used my usual
> technique of copying the the config file from the
> running kernel and modifying as needed. To don this I
> copied
> /boot/config-2.4.27-2-386 as the starting point.
Where did you copy the file to? You need to copy it to
/path/to/kernel-source/.config and then run make oldconfig. You also
need to build an initrd for the kernel (e.g. make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg
--initrd --revision 1.0 -r fakeroot kernel_image)
> However this has not been working well (kernel panics
> etc). Looking into the problem it seems to be clear to
> me that the config-2.4.27-2-386 does *not* correspond
> to what was used to compile kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386
> (basically the config file has numerous modules
> activated that are not present in the
> /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386.
Which modules for example?
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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