Re: [gentoo-user] OT ( was : Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4)

2007-07-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 08:49 +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote: > That is no true. > If you copy your old .config and give make, the make asks you for all > new options (I think "that" is the right one make oldconfig) > Luigi No. What you seeing is a little different. If you read the Makefile: # If .con

Re: [gentoo-user] OT ( was : Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4)

2007-07-20 Thread Ian Hastie
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:49:04 +0200 Luigi Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alle giovedì 19 luglio 2007, Billy McCann ha scritto: > [...] > > > 2. Copy old .config and "make". In this case you miss any > > > new kernel options. > [...] > > That is no true. > If you copy your old .config a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT ( was : Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4)

2007-07-19 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle giovedì 19 luglio 2007, Billy McCann ha scritto: [...] > > 2. Copy old .config and "make". In this case you miss any new > > kernel options. [...] That is no true. If you copy your old .config and give make, the make asks you for al

Re: [gentoo-user] OT ( was : Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4)

2007-07-19 Thread Billy McCann
On 7/17/07, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 14:24 -0500, Billy Wayne McCann wrote: > My purpose for pasting this into this discussion is three-fold: to > show > why I said what I did, to hopefully dispel the notion that I merely > made > this all up, and to discus

Re: [gentoo-user] OT ( was : Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4)

2007-07-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 14:24 -0500, Billy Wayne McCann wrote: > My purpose for pasting this into this discussion is three-fold: to > show > why I said what I did, to hopefully dispel the notion that I merely > made > this all up, and to discuss the relevance of the pasted text itself. > > I apologi

[gentoo-user] OT ( was : Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4)

2007-07-17 Thread Billy Wayne McCann
Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Mick wrote: >>> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:20, Billy McCann wrote: Hi Mick. From what I understand, using oldconfig for major version changes (.20 -> .21) is a bad idea. Here's w