I'm trying to use nALFS to build Chapters 5 and 6 from the version 6.0 book, but it is stopping before doing any compilations in Chapter 5. It is stopping with with a cp error of file does not exist. It is looking for a file called linux-config. What is this, where can I find it? I want to do Chapters 7 and beyond by hand, including configuring and compiling the kernel, if what it is looking for is a kernel configuration file. Do I have to create the kernel configuration first? Or do I otherwise have to do this file by hand?
Dominic Hilsbos
As the name should imply, this is the config file for your kernel. It's what gets saved after you select all the appropriate drivers and settings for your machine.
Here's what the profile's general.ent has to say:
<!-- Linux .config file to use
This file should be in a state that running `make oldconfig` will run straight through, as
that's what the profile in chapter 8 does with this entity.
-->
<!ENTITY kernel-config "linux-config">
So, basically you want to unpack your kernel source somewhere, run 'make menuconfig', select all the options you want/need, save the config file and then move or copy it to your sources directory as 'linux-config'
Thomas, can we maybe mention this in the README? I thought we did, but I went looking there and I don't see anything. If no one else gets to it first, I'll try to slip this in as I have time.
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