Charlie~ Thanks very much for the sanity check. I looked at using make oldconfig, since I've made a few changes to the existing kernel, and didn't want to have to 'rememeber' to make all of those changes again. I didn't know that the emerge was only for 2.4 kernels. But, under 2.6, for some reason, I couldn't seem to get sound working at the commandline, and by removing the sound from the kernel and going through the steps in the alsa gentoo guide, I was able to get it running (and through some additional googling, set the asound.state file to keep it running on reboot). Yeah, I knew the arch/i386... path, I just didn't want to type it all out ;) Being able to boot back to the 2.6.9 kernel is what I'm trying to do with as a part of this exercise. I had a serious problem develop on my first install, which got so out of hand, that I re-installed. I just don't want that problem again.
That's the one thing I really like about gentoo. This user-list and the irc channel seem to be the most helpful places in the world. As soon as I can, I'm dumping my windows boxes entirely and staying with gentoo. Regards, -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Gehlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 1:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel update On Thu, January 13, 2005 7:26, Me said: > I currently have 2.6.9-r9, and recently did emerge -uD world. I got an > updated set of kernel headers (2.6.8-r2) and an updated set of development > sources (2.6.10-r4). In order to use the new kernel and save the 2.6.9 > (just in case), I think that I need to do: > make oldconfig I myself prefer the 'make menuconfig' config. > make modules_install > emerge alsa-driver (according to the alsa gentoo doc, it says that > whenever > you re-compile kernel sources, this should be done - hopefully, my > /etc/asound.state, make.conf and modules.d/alsa files will be left intact) This applies if you're using a 2.4-kernel. In 2.6, use the native ALSA-drivers (available under Sound). > cp bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.10-r4 arch/i386/boot/bzImage, but I'm sure you'll find it anyway > cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.10-r4 > cp /usr/src/2.6.10/.config /boot/config-2.6.10-r4 > edit grub.conf to add the new kernel version > rm -f /usr/src/linux > ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r4 /usr/src/linux > > I don't think I've left anything out. any input is greatly appreciated. IF anything didn't go well, you can always boot back to the previuos kernel (if you kept it in grub.conf) > I'm > somewhat new at this and don't want to have to redo anything I don't have > to. > Don't worry, plenty of help out here :) > > > > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > /Charlie -- [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
