[SATLUG] Stupid Question o' The Day...

[joe speigle]

On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 06:17:49PM -0500, Al Castanoli wrote:
> Joshua Davis kd5lsx at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> : [copy source and make symlink; now working in /usr/src/linux]
> 
> : `make menuconfig'
> 
> : [do config stuff ;-)]
> 
> : `make dep'
> : `make clean'
> : `make bzImage'
> 
> : [wait]
> 
> [moves files around, but the damage is already done]
> 
> Running a make clean before the make bzImage produces a default kernel as 
> specified by whatever the default configuration was for whatever machine 
> was used to generate the default install.  
> 
> Since you'd already done a make dep then the dependencies were set to the 
> choices you made during menuconfig rather than to a default install before 
> you did a make clean and blew away all your configuration changes and that 
> won't work.
> 

  `make mrproper' will do a more extensive `clean'ing.  It is sometimes
  necessary; you may wish to do it at every patch. `make mrproper' will
  also delete your configuration file, so you might want to make a
  backup of it (.config) if you see it as valuable.

make clean will leave the .config in /usr/src/linux intact

> Try leaving out the make clean and see if it works.  I'd also recommend 
> you do a make modules and make modules_install before you reboot.  These 
> and several other mysteries are conveniently hidden in the kernel HOWTO - 
> it's long and tedious to read, but like the Bat Book is to sendmail, it's 
> The Friendly Manual.
> 
> -- 
> Al Castanoli | home afcasta at texas.net | work afcasta at clearchannel.com
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> 
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