OT: GRUB kernel options (Was: Blank screen on tty (console))

2016-04-01 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 13:34:04 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > Himanshu Shekhar composed on 2016-04-01 22:00 (UTC+0530): > > > I am unable to use virtual console. Tried all combinations of cTRL+alt+f- . > > Only X works fine. Rest all screens show an underscore (cursor) which > > doesn't blink. I can't

Re: System "freeze" / IBM x3650 kernel options

2012-03-22 Thread Joey L
>> >>> I used the linux-image-2.6.18-6-686-bigmem kernel but had some strange >>> problems with the server. It all booted fine but occasionally the entire >>> system freezed for a few seconds. Both running services (smtp, pop, >>> imap-daemons, ongoing ssh-sessions

System "freeze" / IBM x3650 kernel options

2008-12-18 Thread Jonas Mixter
uring last afternoon and evening. I booted the server with noapic, nolapic and clock=pit as kernel options (I later saw that clock was replaced with clocksource, so I don't know if that option changes anything) during the problems. The kernel hangs from time to time at boot without the noapic and

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 06:10:34PM +0100, ??. wrote: > Quoth Douglas A. Tutty: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:39:51PM +0100, ??. > > wrote: > > There's and advantage to having some kind of static-linked shell (at > > le

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: > Александър Л. Димитров wrote: >> Having mulitple entries in grub isn't really much of a distraction. And the >> kernel images don't eat a lot of memory, too. Mine is currently 1.8 MiB, >> /lib/modules is 12 Mib, but that's only because nvidia's such a fat-ass hog. >> O

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Александър Л. Димитров wrote: Having mulitple entries in grub isn't really much of a distraction. And the kernel images don't eat a lot of memory, too. Mine is currently 1.8 MiB, /lib/modules is 12 Mib, but that's only because nvidia's such a fat-ass hog. Otherwise it would be a bout 3 MiB.

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Andre
y moved to Lenny from Etch via dist-upgrade. Now I got two > > kernel options in grub available for boot. Doesn't a dist-upgrade mean > > that the old kernel is quite useless with the new system (with all its > > new libraries and stuff)? If so, how do I get rid off Etch&#

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Douglas A. Tutty: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:39:51PM +0100, ??. > wrote: > > No, the Kernel doesn't depend on those libraries. Evenything you need to > > boot a > > machine is in /boot and /lib/modules/`uname -r`. From then on, any > > init-process >

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:39:51PM +0100, ??. wrote: > Quoth Andre: > > > > I recently moved to Lenny from Etch via dist-upgrade. Now I got two > > kernel options in grub available for boot. Doesn't a dist-upgrade mean > &

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 16, 2008 9:20 AM, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can I reboot into the older kernel and will the nvidia driver work? Absolutely. I ran into a similar issue where I installed a new kernel without building ndiswrapper for it. I had uninstalled the module source package, so

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed January 16 2008, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > > I have a question about this, please. > > I have an NVIDIA card, and after some updates I get the black screen of > > death, and I have to change my video driver to nv and restart X. > > If I reboot into an older kernel, will my nvidia drive

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Paul Cartwright: > I have a question about this, please. > I have an NVIDIA card, and after some updates I get the black screen of > death, > and I have to change my video driver to nv and restart X. > If I reboot into an older kernel, will my nvidia driver work? It never fails, > I need t

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed January 16 2008, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > No, the Kernel doesn't depend on those libraries. Evenything you need to > boot a machine is in /boot and /lib/modules/`uname -r`. From then on, any > init-process may get called, which will most likely depend on _a lot_ of > libs, but that's

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andre: > Hi there > > I recently moved to Lenny from Etch via dist-upgrade. Now I got two > kernel options in grub available for boot. Doesn't a dist-upgrade mean > that the old kernel is quite useless with the new system (with all its > new libraries and stuff)? If s

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Javier Barroso
If the lastest kernel hangs, you could probe with the previous kernel I think this is the reason On Jan 16, 2008 11:02 AM, Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there > > I recently moved to Lenny from Etch via dist-upgrade. Now I got two > kernel options in grub available f

Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Andre
Hi there I recently moved to Lenny from Etch via dist-upgrade. Now I got two kernel options in grub available for boot. Doesn't a dist-upgrade mean that the old kernel is quite useless with the new system (with all its new libraries and stuff)? If so, how do I get rid off Etch's

82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio alsa kernel options

2004-05-08 Thread Ben Edwards (lists)
I have a 2.6 kernel and I am recompiling it to include sound suport for ' 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio'. I have included ALSA but under this there are a number of options including 'Generic Devices' and 'PCI Devices'. After mutch googling I cant work out whitch of these 'devices' to include. Regar

Re: Kernel options?

2004-01-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:15:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm installing Debian on a Sun Fire V65x, which is basically an intel whitebox > server. It uses the SE7501WV2 board > (http://www.intel.com/design/servers/se7501wv2/index.htm?iid=ipp_srvr+mthrbds_se7501wv2_srvr&;). >

Re: Kernel options?

2004-01-07 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:15:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The server has all sorts of fancy bells and whistles like e1000 cards and aic79xx > scsi. Since I'm installing woody, I'd like to stick with a Debian kernel, but sadly > no stable kernels have aic79xx in them already. Lots of

Kernel options?

2004-01-07 Thread adam-debian-user
Hi, I'm installing Debian on a Sun Fire V65x, which is basically an intel whitebox server. It uses the SE7501WV2 board (http://www.intel.com/design/servers/se7501wv2/index.htm?iid=ipp_srvr+mthrbds_se7501wv2_srvr&;). The server has all sorts of fancy bells and whistles like e1000 cards and aic7

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..shorewall is neat. Using the webmin gui module? Nope, editing the configuration file by hand. ..if you're a iptables newbie fresh from the ipchains bronze age world, just make sure you understand the subtle new meanings to a few things in iptables. ;-) Heh, I never

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:04:07 -0800, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > .._I_ would add everything in netfilter/iptables and remove ipchains > > support, and make use of iptables statefullness features, up high in > > in my rule lists, s

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Arnt Karlsen wrote: .._I_ would add everything in netfilter/iptables and remove ipchains support, and make use of iptables statefullness features, up high in in my rule lists, seatch netfilter.org mailing lists for samples of " -j ALLOW RELATED,ESTABLISHED " in action. Well, that's a given. Th

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:39:04 +0100, Alf Werder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 20:17, Steve Lamb wrote: > > I've got a machine that I do not have physical access to but > > would like > > to recompile the kernel for. As you can expect

Re: Kernel options, modules, etc.

2003-12-05 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "John L. Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 06:21 Subject: Re: Kernel options, modules, etc. > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > Ok that means I have to unpack kernel source

Re: Kernel options, modules, etc.

2003-12-05 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Ok that means I have to unpack kernel source to get the required > documents. Thanks, > Hoyt You could just install the kernel-docs... apt-get install kernel-doc-x.y.zz -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-04 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Steve Lamb (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've got a machine that I do not have physical access to but would > like to recompile the kernel for. As you can expect I would need to > make absolutely sure that the kernel configuration I come up with is > right the first time. Currently it

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-04 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
And thus we see that Steve Lamb said, : I've got a machine that I do not have physical access to but would like to recompile the kernel for. As you can expect I would need to make absolutely sure that the kernel configuration I come up with is right the first time. Currently it is running

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-04 Thread Alf Werder
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 20:17, Steve Lamb wrote: > I've got a machine that I do not have physical access to but would like > to recompile the kernel for. As you can expect I would need to make > absolutely sure that the kernel configuration I come up with is right the > first time. Currentl

Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-04 Thread Steve Lamb
I've got a machine that I do not have physical access to but would like to recompile the kernel for. As you can expect I would need to make absolutely sure that the kernel configuration I come up with is right the first time. Currently it is running the default kernel from woody (2.2.20-i

Re: Kernel options, modules, etc.

2003-12-03 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 19:49 Subject: Re: Kernel options, modules, etc. > On Wed, 20

Re: Kernel options, modules, etc.

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 00:04, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > There has been a lot of talk about kernels on the list lately and I am at a > loss to understand what options or modules are required. Is there a > document that lists these items that I could read. The modules you need are the ones that correspon

Kernel options, modules, etc.

2003-12-02 Thread Hoyt Bailey
There has been a lot of talk about kernels on the list lately and I am at a loss to understand what options or modules are required. Is there a document that lists these items that I could read. Hoyt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Variations in kernel options, any websites?

2003-08-14 Thread MJM
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 09:46, Tim wrote: > Is there a website which accounts for the specs of the different > kernels? kernel.org has changelogs associated with releases describing changes made from the previous revision. The information is fine grained. -- Mike Mueller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Variations in kernel options, any websites?

2003-08-14 Thread Tim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Is there a website which accounts for the specs of the different kernels? I would like to compare them to see what advancements have been made, eg. is UDF write capability available for CD-RW in newer kernels? I'm currently using 2.4.18. Thanks,

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

2003-07-08 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:18:35 -0700 (PDT) > Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When asked: ...install a partition boot block on /dev/hda1? > > I answer: yes - I originally set up debian to have the mbr on > /dev/hda > > You want to write

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies...

2003-07-08 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all > good but is there a doc somewhere that explains the options in the > kernel configurati

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

2003-07-08 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:18:35 -0700 (PDT) Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When asked: ...install a partition boot block on /dev/hda1? > I answer: yes - I originally set up debian to have the mbr on /dev/hda You want to write the boot loader to the MBR, not the partition boot sector. If

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

2003-07-08 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, July 07 at 5:22 PM EDT > Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at > >http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all > >good but is there a doc somewhere that exp

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies...

2003-07-07 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Mon, July 07 at 5:22 PM EDT Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at >http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all >good but is there a doc somewhere that explains the options in the >kernel configuration better?

Kernel Options for Dummies...

2003-07-07 Thread Gary Singleton
Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all good but is there a doc somewhere that explains the options in the kernel configuration better? Especially helpful would be something that says 'don't say no to that one' or w

Re: DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-18 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Doug" == Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> If you want to have it loaded every time you boot up, add a line to >> the end of /etc/modules that just says "af_packet". You could >> instead try adding a line "alias net-pf-17 af_packet" (at least >> that's what the kernel d

Re: DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-18 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 18 Nov 2002, 16:10:25, Hubert Chan wrote: > Doug> In the 2.4.16-SMP prepackaged kernel I'm using, CONFIG_UNIX=3Dm > Doug> is what's set in the config-2.4.16-SMP file . . . I don't know > Doug> what the m means . . . > > The m means that it's compiled as a loadable module i.e. you can > dynamica

Re: DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-18 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Doug" == Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Doug> On 17 Nov 2002, 15:31:38, Hubert Chan wrote: >> Doug> Per Vincent, I simply need to edit my /.config file and voila. >> You need to recompile too, of course. >> >> You say you're using a prepackaged kernel. Which one are you usin

Re: DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-18 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 17 Nov 2002, 15:31:38, Hubert Chan wrote: > > Doug> Per Vincent, I simply need to edit my /.config file and voila. > > You need to recompile too, of course. > > You say you're using a prepackaged kernel. Which one are you using? > All the official Debian packages should have both options set

Re: DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-17 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Doug" == Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Doug> Per Vincent, I simply need to edit my /.config file and voila. You need to recompile too, of course. You say you're using a prepackaged kernel. Which one are you using? All the official Debian packages should have both opt

Re: DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-17 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 17 Nov 2002, 17:14:58, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Sunday 17 November 2002 4:50 pm, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > OK - static network config works fine. DHCP doesn't, with the usual > > messages about the socket filter and packet socket needing to be set to > > yes > > Are you talking pcmcia here?

Re: DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-17 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:50:28PM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > OK - static network config works fine. DHCP doesn't, with the usual messages > about the socket filter and packet socket needing to be set to yes . . . > . you have to got in your .config: CONFIG_FILTER=y CONFIG_UNIX=y this op

Re: DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-17 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 17 November 2002 4:50 pm, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > OK - static network config works fine. DHCP doesn't, with the usual > messages about the socket filter and packet socket needing to be set to yes > . . . Are you talking pcmcia here? - --

DHCP Kernel Options - where to set?

2002-11-17 Thread Doug MacFarlane
OK - static network config works fine. DHCP doesn't, with the usual messages about the socket filter and packet socket needing to be set to yes . . . . So where do I set these two options? I use a pre-packaged kernel. madmac -- Doug MacFarlane [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:47:12PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 23:40, Andy Saxena wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file > > from one kernel source tree to another. > > by all means ;) > then run (from the new so

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:58:47PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:42:39PM -0700, nate wrote: > > never used oldconfig, I usually just manually re-configure each kernel > > as I get them(habbit? maybe). > > > > Also, I'd like to know that if I copied .config from 2.4.4 to

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Andy Saxena wrote: >On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:42:39PM -0700, nate wrote: > > >>never used oldconfig, I usually just manually re-configure each kernel >>as I get them(habbit? maybe). >> >> >> > >How do you do it? Isn't it a pain to go through the entire configuration >routine when, perhaps,

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:42:39PM -0700, nate wrote: > never used oldconfig, I usually just manually re-configure each kernel > as I get them(habbit? maybe). > How do you do it? Isn't it a pain to go through the entire configuration routine when, perhaps, all you want is an additional feature t

[Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)]

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
Just thought I'd make this part of the mailing list. -Andy --- Begin Message --- Andy Saxena wrote: >Hi, > >I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file >from one kernel source tree to another. > >Specifically, there are two cases that I am interested in: > >1.) Cop

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > Andy Saxena wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file >> from one kernel source tree to another. >> >> Specifically, there are two cases that I am interested in: >> >> 1.) Copying config file from the 2.2 seri

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Amir Tal
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 23:40, Andy Saxena wrote: > Hi, > > I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file > from one kernel source tree to another. by all means ;) then run (from the new source directory) : make oldconfig . you will be prompted only for the new c

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread nate
Andy Saxena said: > Hi, > > I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file > from one kernel source tree to another. > > Specifically, there are two cases that I am interested in: > > 1.) Copying config file from the 2.2 series to the 2.4 series. I wouldn't try this.. >

Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file from one kernel source tree to another. Specifically, there are two cases that I am interested in: 1.) Copying config file from the 2.2 series to the 2.4 series. 2.) Copying the config file from one minor version to an

Re: kernel options/settings

2000-09-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: kernel options/settings Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 05:07:21PM -0500 On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 05:07:21PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > okay, with > apt-get in

kernel options/settings

2000-09-28 Thread will trillich
okay, with apt-get install kernel-package cd /usr/source/kernel-source* make menuconfig you can specify what options you want to include and exclude from your own version of the kernel. so... how can you tell what options have already been included from the existing/runni

Re: Kernel options

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
And, the non-debian option -- /usr/src/linux/.config has all the options too, if you ran make [menu|x]config. :) On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 04:23:38PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > If it's either a Debian-supplied kernel, or one in which make-kpkg was > used to create an installable debfile, you

Re: Kernel options

1999-09-26 Thread Gregory T. Norris
If it's either a Debian-supplied kernel, or one in which make-kpkg was used to create an installable debfile, you will find it's config-file in /boot/config-VERSION. On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 02:02:50PM -0700, Fish Smith wrote: > Please send replies directly to me, as I am not > subscribed to the li

Re: Kernel options

1999-09-26 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Fish Smith wrote: > Please send replies directly to me, as I am not > subscribed to the list. It's considered more polite to ask for CCs to you, instead of [implicitly] asking for replies to go only to you. Since the question is on topic fo

Kernel options

1999-09-26 Thread Fish Smith
Please send replies directly to me, as I am not subscribed to the list. How can I view which options my current kernel is compiled with? I am trying to compile a new one and I do not have my hardware manual, so I want to keep everything the same except adding sound and module addability. Thnx very

Re: Distributed Kernel options

1998-03-27 Thread Kenneth L. Summers
> > I should have stressed `recent kernels'. 2.0.29 is kinda old; > this option was only put into the kernel-package recently. The > following is what is used in kernel-image-2.0.32_2.0.32-5.deb on the > i386 platforms. > > I hope this helps. > Yes indeed it does. Although some

Re: Distributed Kernel options

1998-03-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Kenneth" == Kenneth L Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hi, >> >> I think you need the config file from a distribution kernel. On >> recent kernel, this is in /boot/config-. You can use dpkg >> -x kernel-image*.deb /tmp to extract the default kernel to /tmp; >> look then in /tmp/boot

Re: Distributed Kernel options

1998-03-26 Thread finn
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Kenneth L. Summers wrote: : > : > Isn't the .config file in the kernel-source package the same as the : > distribution kernel? : : I don't think so. At least is seems like when I go to configure the kernel : it has some options set by default that do not seem reasonable for

Re: Distributed Kernel options

1998-03-26 Thread Kenneth L. Summers
> > Isn't the .config file in the kernel-source package the same as the > distribution kernel? I don't think so. At least is seems like when I go to configure the kernel it has some options set by default that do not seem reasonable for the distribution kernel. As a (possibly fictional) exampl

Re: Distributed Kernel options

1998-03-26 Thread finn
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Kenneth L. Summers wrote: : > Hi, : > : > I think you need the config file from a distribution : > kernel. On recent kernel, this is in /boot/config-. You can : > use dpkg -x kernel-image*.deb /tmp to extract the default kernel to : > /tmp; look then in /tmp/boot for t

Re: Distributed Kernel options

1998-03-26 Thread Kenneth L. Summers
> Hi, > > I think you need the config file from a distribution > kernel. On recent kernel, this is in /boot/config-. You can > use dpkg -x kernel-image*.deb /tmp to extract the default kernel to > /tmp; look then in /tmp/boot for the config file; use kernel-package > to rebuild the kerne

Re: Distributed Kernel options

1998-03-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I think you need the config file from a distribution kernel. On recent kernel, this is in /boot/config-. You can use dpkg -x kernel-image*.deb /tmp to extract the default kernel to /tmp; look then in /tmp/boot for the config file; use kernel-package to rebuild the kernel. (look at

Distributed Kernel options

1998-03-26 Thread Kenneth L. Summers
Hello to the group. I have what seems like an obvious question, but after a lot of research I haven't been able to come up with an answer. If I want to build an *exact* duplicate of the distribution kernel, how do I do that? Specifically, what options were used to build the distribution kernel a