On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Harry <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like there is no real way unless as you say. I've been > wrestling with kernel build after kernel build trying to get a new > install booted. Many failures led me to finally resorting to > genkernel... but you may know already that is a full day of compile at > least. > > But I'm seeing really massive times even on the trimmed down kernels > where I've set only known things I need. > > This is happening in a chroot from sysrescueCD on an older P4 with 2G > ram. But my god, I'm seeing hrs and hrs of compile time go by even on > a lean mean menuconfig produced .config. > > Is this pretty normal?
No, I don't think that's normal... for that CPU it should be something like 10-15 minutes maybe.
