Re: debian on imac - compiling kernels

[Mal Beaton <mal@mbeaton.id.au>]

J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:

> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 08:48:16 +1000, Mal Beaton wrote:
>
> > I copied the old 2.4 config to the source of the 2.6.6 and did make
> > oldconfig
>
>
> There have been many changes between 2.4 and 2.6 in how config options are
> named, how they depend on eachother, what the defaults are etc. A copied 2.4
> config is unlikely to do the right thing with 2.6. Try taking the time to do
> a full, proper configuration of 2.6.
>
> HTH,
> Ray
thanks
we downloaded the rc2 ? version of linuxppc-2.5-benh  linux-2.6.6

and it still had issues. Re rsynced to a later version a day later and
all our issues disappeared.

Yeh understand the recommendation for full look at 2.6 config

2 of us must have gone through it 50 times

was getting frustrated but ended up being an issue with the released 
kernel (we think)

cheers