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Re: USB disk shows up late at boot



Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/22/2009 4:36 PM:
> On Tue December 22 2009, Celejar wrote:
>>> I think I have done this before, I think I tried it for a 64bit kernel,
>>> for my Duo-Core processor, but it didn't turn out well. Seems to me the
>>> "configure' part takes 2 days, or way too many options. I seem to
>>> remember it asked whether i wanted support for every known piece of
>>> hardware out there, and I don't know when to say Y or N..
>>
>> Try 'make menuconfig', or copy over a config file from a running kernel
>> of the same version.
> 
> ok , so I found my config file, /usr/src/linux/.config . This is my config for 
> my currently running kernel, that includes all the modules I need to make all 
> of my hardware work?
> so if I copied that to the folder where I unpacked the 2.6.32.2 kernel and ran 
> make menuconfig, and just accepted everything, it should create a kernel that 
> I can use?

Paul, have you read this yet?  It will be very helpful.

http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html

--
Stan


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