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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 08:20:11 -0800
Subject: Problem in configuring the kernel
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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