From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FMyUk-0004QW-SL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:27:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2P2QNV1028370; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:26:23 GMT Received: from mxo3.broadbandsupport.net (mxo3.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.83]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2P2M1KR008476 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:22:02 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.4] (unknown [207.68.230.60]) by mxo3.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8F33ABBC2 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:21:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4424A946.1030602@vista-express.com> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:21:58 -0600 From: Teresa and Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060320 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel References: <8c7713390603240019w3011a903p@mail.gmail.com> <4423AD6A.5010404@vista-express.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-From: teendale@vista-express.com X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: b5c1aea7-3a2f-483d-909c-96ff0f672d51 X-Archives-Hash: 90db6e68277f011557c871ff20266ddf Lord Sauron wrote: >On 3/24/06, Teresa and Dale wrote: > > >>Gabriel Dain wrote: >> >> >> >>>>However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>># cd /usr/src/linux >>> >>> > >Know how to do that... > > > >>># make menuconfig >>> >>> > >I don't see a file called "menuconfig" in here. Will this work? All >I see (that looks relevant) is Makefile, include/ and kernel/ > > You don't see that as a file, it is a command. Just type it in and a new screen comes up to configure the kernel with. Use the arrow keys to navigate around. I use the space bar to toggle what I want it to do as far as modules or build in. Some of this may not make sense until you are in there. Once you see it, it will clear up a bit. It took be about 10 tries to get a stable kernel the first time I did it. Now, if I know the hard ware, twice is about the most tries I need. I usually hit it the first time. > > >>> >>> >>> > >No clue whatsoever how to do that. I've never built a kernel before, >not on Debian, not on Red Hat, not on anything. > > > >>># make && make modules_install >>> >>> > >What'll that do? Make and make modules_install? I don't see anything >called "modules_install" either. > > When you type in make, it builds the kernel itself and creates a bzImage, it also makes the modules. BzImage is the kernel. That is the first thing the OS itself loads up to boot, yes, windoze has one too. Make modules_install installs any modules that were built during the make command. > > >>Addition: >> >>cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage >> >> > >I think mine is a i686... I think I should say that I did just take >the kernel off the live CD... I wasn't brave enough (at the time) to >build a kernel. > > It is the same for them all. My rig is i686 too but the kernel in i386 is what you use. > > >>Then add it or change it in bootloader, grub is easier on this one. ;-) >> >> > >I use grup. > > Either they have a new bootloader or you mean grub. I have used Lilo and now use grub. IMHO, grub is better. > > I hope some of this makes sense. I have been where you are now and it is a bit . . . . scary. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list