Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 09 November 2009 00:20:45 Dale wrote: > >> What he said plus this little tidbit of info. When I built my first >> kernel, I had no howto except for the basic instructions in the Gentoo >> install guide. This was about 6 years or so ago and there was not a lot >> on configuring a kernel except for the options Gentoo needed. It took >> me three tries to get one to boot and work pretty well and all of a hour >> at most. A lot of that hour was compiling the kernel. >> >> > > Three tries Dale? Only three? > > You deserve a medal for that. My first attempt took at least 10 goes > > ;-) > > >
I didn't say it was perfect, I said it booted and worked pretty well. Now getting the sensors, USB and some other odds and ends took a few more. Once I got booted tho, I was ginning pretty good. You also have to keep in mind, my system is not real complicated. Basically, chipset, file system, and sound card to start with. USB was the fun one. I have to have one USB driver for my printer and another for my camera. One is the old style USB 1 and the other is USB 2 or something to that effect. Point to the OP tho, once I had a good running kernel, make oldconfig worked for years. I did have to build one from scratch a year or so because things changed drastically and oldconfig got confused. So basically, I have had to build from scratch twice in the last 5 or 6 years. I think that shows oldconfig works pretty good. I do find this funny tho. Someone spends the better part of a day installing Gentoo but doesn't think building their own kernel is worth it. Most compiles take longer to finish than configing a kernel. Dale :-) :-)
