From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P6qjU-0008MR-Jm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:18:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8A87E08C8; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:17:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A86A2E08C8 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:17:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so1057076ewy.40 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:17:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=gt/5w8Zt2HLAaLBXtbwihT4t+TU+1WCQbph+EhqbY9I=; b=h4mqHFdQYME9EG6Grpi5DijkF2BifyhJ54Zji/OiORqyNhce7/mCf15aX9fXbRrdAk +w0r4BBQUPPrcSaf9EnfexMrtGyisoeLP9aDhf02ZjK+NYGdVUxR3PZnk2BB4UmK3TfN igDf7aVDHs2mMjPaj+koGT411Df6Q5fbwSHgo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=vFgYspxbNWuCPQ4svJK+/lldfLEicyNtt4C/+a1dFCpHnqH9G1/iJFr0BYKND6kkNp pt/Fpo8sQsq5X6GiR00nDDuKMv8rmzkWZKBsHnUkHXYBFc8DZZ9EtoNv2IthJJTm/a36 X/u5WXUmU9GFiduT9U2tAJUWz/2tBpagU2Krg= Received: by 10.213.28.10 with SMTP id k10mr1284901ebc.59.1287173868850; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:17:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x54sm8684124eeh.17.2010.10.15.13.17.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:17:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:18:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r4; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Mike Diehl References: <201010151129.18927.mdiehl@diehlnet.com> <4CB89212.7020801@f_philipp.fastmail.net> <201010151147.47258.mdiehl@diehlnet.com> In-Reply-To: <201010151147.47258.mdiehl@diehlnet.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010152218.19652.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e58e5f47-6734-4239-ace1-649fde63fcf7 X-Archives-Hash: 9dce81732dea7b5787d5fcf6ac1d666a 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