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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config
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On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant wrote:
> Well, I deleted my kernel .config.  Is there any way to magically
> re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way?
>
> - Grant

ls /boot

ls /boot
boot             config-2.6.28r4.old  grub        memtest86plus  
System.map-2.6.28r4      System.map.old  vmlinuz-2.6.28r4      vmlinuz.old
config-2.6.28r4  dmesg_fsck_segfault  lost+found  System.map     
System.map-2.6.28r4.old  vmlinuz         vmlinuz-2.6.28r4.old

config - there it is!

there are good reasons to use debianutils+make install to install new kernels 
....