From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQGrM-00055u-2b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:53:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF6BFE06BE; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:53:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f20.google.com (mail-qy0-f20.google.com [209.85.221.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ADABE06BE for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:53:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so7228130qyk.10 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:53:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=g00xZZdCob0cf2sMtJbDqRKBReBfqDqJSxrNQ+aN5sE=; b=dGh3ozfXy6IWmfg7QNixldTp9RFLrUvfaBUmeaq5GfWh9amtKMxEO7Ygm/7ZlHw79l Pr2SLXwYV3bzLFFxkfGSZfsMl5YXQgoQkaClmz9jof4nJFuOdHbK85s0Alnyp5nvIyW2 VgY3//liopGXFsOENir0GhnCkU8dOm8D+WRzE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BaSfX1cp8DIW5WW0dcHPVyXI2rdbEraRzR/fe1lW5YU9gkBmv3PVMDS/uSiXgbOv6a IdnS7HO2b0PfVFl81sAcZ+no37mCkd4jISh0EQzX2Et4lbLQkkbkvTXIdnsly/82GeuW smpopMQNrKyMh2eWzS0A7kbruJ1Rxvt6jF9jo= Received: by 10.214.45.2 with SMTP id s2mr877260qas.348.1232697226319; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:53:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.230.99.222? (dialup-4.230.99.222.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.99.222]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 8sm9169822ywg.45.2009.01.22.23.53.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:53:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49797784.9070507@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:53:40 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config References: <49bf44f10901221812v19b510f5y93fe3f64d8b5b534@mail.gmail.com> <200901230404.54942.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <497954A5.60205@gmail.com> <4979755B.8060705@konstantinhansen.de> In-Reply-To: <4979755B.8060705@konstantinhansen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: db7ead1a-7287-49a4-91fc-95dff480258d X-Archives-Hash: 7a4626ee0051648a4abbeb3f33b06f8a KH wrote: > Dale schrieb: > >> Or just copy .config over to /boot yourself. I do that when I have a >> stable kernel. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >> >> > +1 > I even asked to add this to the gentoo kernel upgreat guide but devs > didn't like this idea. > > kh > > > I'll show this just in case it will give someone ides. root@smoker / # ls -al /boot/ total 6970 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jan 16 01:46 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 512 Dec 17 06:07 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 11 2008 .keep -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1204147 Dec 8 19:20 System.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 941986 Sep 11 2006 System.map-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Dec 16 21:09 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2460088 Jan 2 20:13 bzImage-2.6.23-r8-7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2288336 Dec 30 07:49 bzImage-2.6.27-r7-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44461 Aug 12 02:07 config-2.6.23-r8-5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47940 Dec 13 04:50 config-2.6.25-gentoo-r9-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47438 Aug 5 22:43 config-2.6.25-r7-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47324 Aug 12 17:59 config-2.6.25-r7-2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 16 01:43 grub drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jul 10 2008 lost+found root@smoker / # I generally name the config with the same info as the kernel. Also note the naming of my kernels. I may need to clean out some more but I try to keep at least two or three kernels laying around too. Never know, one may get corrupted or deleted accidentally. Edit the grub boot line and carry on. Neat huh? Dale :-) :-)