[SLL] make config - too many questions

Robert Woodcock rcw at blarg.net
Wed Jan 28 14:06:08 PST 2009


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:05:08AM -0800, Mathew D. Watson wrote:
> What I would like to do is start out with a known to work configuration.  
> For example, whatever was used to make the ubuntu 8.10 kernel that my  
> machine is running. Then I can make my changes as needed.

On a stock kernel, /proc/config.gz should exist. Ungzip it and overwrite the
.config in your kernel source tree with it.

If not, /boot/config-[kernelversion] should have been installed as part of
the kernel .deb package. You can use that too.

If this is a newer kernel version, run "make oldconfig" to ask you about
only the things not mentioned in your existing .config file.
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