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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Mike Diehl <mdiehl@diehlnet.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:18:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010152218.19652.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010151147.47258.mdiehl@diehlnet.com>

Apparently, though unproven, at 19:47 on Friday 15 October 2010, Mike Diehl 
did opine thusly:

> > Instead of your brute-force "yes to all" approach, newer kernels also
> > support `make localyesconfig` which takes all modules currently used in
> > the running kernel and compiles them into the new kernel. It is very
> > helpful when you already have a good but generic kernel like the one on
> > your live CD.
> 
> Oh now this is cool.  Thank you.  I'll try this, also.

You could also copy the working kernel and it's modules off the LiveCD onto 
the hard disk. It won't be perfect but at least you'd have something that 
works and can boot to assist troubleshooting. Booting and running off LiveCDs 
is both convenient and painful.


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-15 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-15 17:29 [gentoo-user] Problem with new install Mike Diehl
2010-10-15 17:40 ` Florian Philipp
2010-10-15 17:47   ` Mike Diehl
2010-10-15 18:16     ` Dan Cowsill
2010-10-15 20:18     ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-10-15 19:23   ` Mike Diehl
2010-10-15 21:02     ` Florian Philipp
2010-10-16  7:06       ` Mike Diehl
2010-10-15 21:25     ` Bill Longman
2010-10-15 19:47   ` Mike Diehl
2010-10-15 18:17 ` Per-Erik Westerberg

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