Today is when running a lilo menu with "production" and "experimental" kernels saved me. "production" is 2.6.30-r8. "experimental" is 2.6.31-r6 or 2.6.31-r10 (same problems with either one). I set /usr/src/linux to point at 2.6.31-r6 (or 10), copied .config from 2.6.30-r8 and ran "make oldconfig". I got the warnings listed below before the config process started. "make oldconfig" appears to have reset to default values, and it was showing me some settings totally the opposite of what I know I've set. When I ran through "make oldconfig", compiled and rebooted, I got a framebuffer console, which I *KNOW* I haven't selected. And there was a kernel panic because gentoo couldn't find the boot device.
I'm enough of a bit-twiddler that I can set up the kernel manually. But I know from past experience that it's a long slow process. Is there any trick to salvage "make oldconfig", before I resort to setting up the kernel "the hard way"? Here's the output from "make oldconfig" up to where it starts asking questions... [d531][root][/usr/src/linux] make oldconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc HOSTCC scripts/basic/hash HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o scripts/kconfig/conf.c: In function 'conf_askvalue': scripts/kconfig/conf.c:105: warning: ignoring return value of 'fgets', declared with attribute warn_unused_result scripts/kconfig/conf.c: In function 'conf_choice': scripts/kconfig/conf.c:307: warning: ignoring return value of 'fgets', declared with attribute warn_unused_result HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2486: scripts/kconfig/confdata.c: In function 'conf_write': scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:508: warning: ignoring return value of 'fwrite', declared with attribute warn_unused_result scripts/kconfig/confdata.c: In function 'conf_write_autoconf': scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:745: warning: ignoring return value of 'fwrite', declared with attribute warn_unused_result scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:746: warning: ignoring return value of 'fwrite', declared with attribute warn_unused_result In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2487: scripts/kconfig/expr.c: In function 'expr_print_file_helper': scripts/kconfig/expr.c:1090: warning: ignoring return value of 'fwrite', declared with attribute warn_unused_result HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/x86/Kconfig * * Restart config... * * * Performance Counters * Kernel Performance Counters (PERF_COUNTERS) [N/y/?] (NEW) -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
