Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade confusion

2017-12-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 30/12/2017 20:43, Jalus Bilieyich wrote: > Recently there was a kernel update and I don't want to reconfigure it > from scratch. In the official documentation, it told me to move the old > .config into the new kernel source tree and type > make oldconfig > > This is where I'm confused; which

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade confusion

2017-12-30 Thread Jalus Bilieyich
This worked. Thank you all a thousand times!

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade confusion

2017-12-30 Thread Wol's lists
On 30/12/17 19:11, Mick wrote: to remove the symlink pointing to the previous kernel, to create a new symlink to the new kernel sources directory, Or, to use the supplied gentoo tools ... eselect kernel list eselect kernel set n to see what kernels the system thinks are available, and to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade confusion

2017-12-30 Thread Mick
Hi Jalus, On Saturday, 30 December 2017 18:43:12 GMT Jalus Bilieyich wrote: > Recently there was a kernel update and I don't want to reconfigure it > from scratch. In the official documentation, it told me to move the old > .config into the new kernel source tree and type > make oldconfig > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade confusion

2017-12-30 Thread Andrew Barchuk
Hi Jalus, > This is where I'm confused; which .config file (/proc/config.gz or > /boot/config) The two should have the same content most of the time. You can use either. config.gz needs to be decompressed (e.g. with zcat). > where in the kernel source tree do I put this file in. In the root of

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade confusion

2017-12-30 Thread Wol's lists
On 30/12/17 18:43, Jalus Bilieyich wrote: Recently there was a kernel update and I don't want to reconfigure it from scratch. In the official documentation, it told me to move the old .config into the new kernel source tree and type make oldconfig This is where I'm confused; which .config file

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade confusion

2017-12-30 Thread Jalus Bilieyich
Recently there was a kernel update and I don't want to reconfigure it from scratch. In the official documentation, it told me to move the old .config into the new kernel source tree and type make oldconfig This is where I'm confused; which .config file (/proc/config.gz or /boot/config) and where