Hello,
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> menuconfig' and carefully selected/de-selected all the options. This was
> followed by a 'make clean'. Now when it came to 'make bzImage' it started
> asking me the same options that I chosen during menuconfig.
Strange!! Never happened to me. Did you do a "make dep" after the "make
menuconfig" ? The correct sequence IIRC is
make mrproper
make config
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
> during 'make bzImage' the options are marked [Y/n/m/?] or [m/n/?]
> or[n/y/m/?] etc. Now if i don't choose any of these and just press enter
> will it take the option that appears first,eg if it is [Y/n/m/?], then
will
> pressing a plain enter choose Y?
Of the choices given, one will be in CAPS while the others will be in
lower case. The one in caps is the default choice when you press enter.
> I plan to do the 'menu config' thing again. Will this screw up my system
in
> any way?
IMHO, no. Not till you compile a screwed-up kernel and decide to boot
with it.
> BTW: I am using the Kernel sources that came with RH6.1 ie 2.2.14. I also
> found that under/usr/src the directories , ~linux and linux2.2.14 are
> exactly identical. So if i get some new Kernel source, where should I put
> it?
/usr/src/linux is a soft link to /usr/src/linux-your.version.number . So
when you want to compile a new kernel, untar the tarball into, say,
linux-a.b.c and do
cd /usr/src
rm linux
ln -s linux-a.b.c linux
I have a hunch that you havent ever bothered to read
/usr/src/linux/documentation/README .
Regards,
Sundeep.
