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 1FMphX-00077n-5g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:03:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2OGw4eg014874; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:58:04 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.234]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2OGc8eE028846 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:38:09 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i27so794173wra for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:38:08 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CqTYUJGOPUvBLgrnwZdCdINzRnKmn2DWztqNoB7zoNV9RytqU2g6+DSMMWPbjnHAOnreRnJnTv1onNuSOEnd0F70OdYVCL/XE8wyuyQWQFbOFtGW824A2chcW4cNuSno77Z0SMlda8w/8dDN3V+cX7BVaTs5d/+qI5/GJJKf5Mk= Received: by 10.54.72.8 with SMTP id u8mr675959wra; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:38:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.66.3 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:38:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640603240838x25612db1t4baa37c5873896ef@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:38:08 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2OGc8eE028846 X-Archives-Salt: bbb0b14e-3128-49cd-b9eb-82a7cb30c93f X-Archives-Hash: 0ced922c82c591cb62c8820735bf30b9 On 3/24/06, Lord Sauron wrote: > However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel, or do so enabling Others have covered the mechanics of building and installing the kernel. Just a couple of points to try to keep you out of trouble: 1. However you install the kernel (by which I mean the bzImage gets copied to /boot), make really sure you have a backup kernel, and can boot from it. Something like: cp /boot/vmlinuz-blah-blah /boot/vmlinuz-SAFE cp /boot/initrd-blah-blah /boot/initrd-SAFE and then add an entry to /boot/grub/grub.conf like so: title Safe kernel /vmlinuz-SAFE blah blah blah initrd /initrd-SAFE Then reboot to your 'Safe' kernel to make sure things work. 2. Since you are just starting out with kernel configuration, only _add_ things to the kernel, don't delete any drivers, and avoid modules (make everything a '*' in menuconfig, not 'M'). Once you get some confidence with configuring and installing kernels, and rebooting with your backup kernel, you can get more adventurous with modules or removing unnecessary drivers. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list