Re: how to get a working .config kernel config file

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>]

On Jun 19, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Julian De Marchi wrote:

Try this

cp /boot/.config /usr/src/linux

Then when you load your kernel menu, go to load alternative config file. Then input the file name .config.

This should help!

What I usually do is copy the .config file to the kernel build directory, as you say, and then run 'make oldconfig'.  It'll ask me about any options that are in the new kernel that aren't mentioned in my old configuration file.  Then I'm all set to build the kernel.

David Brodbeck

Information Technology Specialist 3

Computational Linguistics

University of Washington