From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Problem in configuring the kernel
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 08:20:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111106162011.GC30006@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABdVG0uug0SR2NUxY5988snxfbU=RT0mebPkXaTSiz5nCVmq2A@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 06:29:14PM +0530, Naman Shekhar Mishra wrote:
> I have been trying to configure the kernel for my Lenovo 300 N100 machine.
> First I tried to use:
>
> ??? $make defconfig
>
> but this doesn't work and there is a kernel panic when I boot with the new
> kernel.
What panic is it?
> Then I used the configuration file that came with the Ubuntu distribution and
> it ran just fine, but the problem is that it takes TOO long to compile with
> that configuration.
>
>
> What I want is a minimum configuration which runs the hardware on my machine.
>
> I looked up "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell" and ran a script which looks through
> the hardware and shows only the modules I want to be using
That was a good script a long time ago, but please use 'make localmodconfig'
based off of your working configuration file, which will be much faster
to build.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
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2011-11-06 12:59 Problem in configuring the kernel Naman Shekhar Mishra
2011-11-06 16:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2011-11-06 16:58 ` Naman Shekhar Mishra
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