On 02/16/2014 02:38 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 01:04:12AM +0100, Armin K. wrote: >> Hello there, >> >> I have been spending my time on LFS IRC for a long time now and have >> noticed that most users who come for help there get stuck at configuring >> their kernel. >> >> Thus, I have written a rather basic guide on how to configure the kernel >> to get your machine to boot for the first time (disk controllers and >> filesystem drivers), but not other hardware specific stuff. >> >> You can see it here: >> >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/basic-kernel.txt >> >> Any suggestions or additions are welcome. >> >> Cheers. >> > Just a couple of suggestions: >
Thanks for your input. > 1. SATA etc > "So I select the first two modules below." > s/modules/drivers/ - people coming from a distro might be used to > building everything as a module and take it too literally. > Yeah, that makes sense. I've also added a note at the beginning that everything should be built-in. > 2. filesystems - > I would be inclined to drop specific mention of reiser3, and cover > it by "Additionally, any other filesystem not listed here.", but > perhaps some distro(s) used to use it in the last couple of years. > That was first in my mind, but I realised that BLFS still provides fs tools for reiserfs and that's why I added it. I've removed it now though. > I guess that defconfig covers almost everything else that is > commonly needed to get a bootable .config. > > ĸen > That is mentioned at the beginning. But then again, some might try to "strip" the kernel as much as possible, that's why I've covered the basics only. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
