gentoo kernel upgrade problems

[Myles Green]

On Sun, 2004-19-12 at 17:22 -0600, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> I am trying to upgrade my main desktop.  It is gentoo kernel 2.4.20-xfs (yeah, 
> I know, not real great).  I did an emerge and got the 2.6.9 kernel.  I changed 
> the '/usr/src/linux' link to point to the new directory and did:
> 
> # make mrproper
> # make xconfig
> # make
> # make modules_install

The 2.6 kernels are built a little differently:

(there is no make mrproper anymore)
make [old|menu|g|k]config    #the g and k are for a GUI using gtk2 or qt
(kde)
make all
make modules_install

and if your menu.list or lilo.config is set up for it:

make install

There are a few pitfalls you can run into so you might want to have a
look at the config 
used in the default gentoo kernel first

HTH,

Happy Holidays,
Myles

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Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> Calgary AB Canada
Ubuntu Linux 5.04 "Hoary Hedgehog" Development Branch http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
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