[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have some curios things, while im compiling Kernel 2.4.7 too.
> I was glad to see that there was a built in module for my new networkcard
> (rtl????), but after i'm made 'make mrproper' this option disappers.
I think I blew up a LM 7.2 kernel source install beyond recovery by
doing a make mrproper. I cannot guarantee that's what did it, but here's
what I do know:
1 - I think I'd built an SMP kernel for the machine and installed it.
2 - I fiddled around a while with hardware problems with IRQ conflicts
(trying to get parallel port to be irq driven, and with getting
my ethernet card to work).
3 - I changed ethernet cards back to 3c509
4 - I fiddled around some more.
5 - I saved the . files in /usr/src/kernel*, did a make mrproper,
and tried to config and build a new kernel. I had lost a
critical file (I forget the name right now, but if anyone
wants to know I can go find it). I tried rpm -i --force
the kernel parts again (source, headers, and something else
I think), no joy.
So, I decided to just be lazy and re-install the entire system (since
I had a spare partition and since I'd not done anything important to
that machine yet anyway ;-).
So you see there's a lot of places where I coulda blown something up,
but next time I'm going to tar cf myself a copy of my linux source tree
before I do a make mrproper!
and, of course: YMMV!!!!!!!
rc
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