Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Jun 1997 00:28:12 -0400 | From | Neil Moore <> | Subject | Re: 2.1 Newbie boot bummer (SOLVED) |
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Someone who has a badly-configured system :) (linux kernel account) wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > > In case anybody might wonder what would lead me to leave out virtual > > terminals, I can only say in my defense that, while "make xconfig" is nice > > and flashy, it does make it easy to blow past configuration parameters that > > weren't there before, and the default on these was "no". Next time I'll be > > more attentive. > > > If you dont "make mrproper" after a patch any new options will be > defaulted to "no" which can sometimes cause problems.. Make mrproper does > nuke your config but it's best to do it with a new kernel anyways so you > can see any new options that you might want..
Probably the best thing to do is `make oldconfig'. This will ask you about new options and keep your previous selections for old ones. Then, you can do menuconfig or xconfig if you want. If I had known about `oldconfig' when VTs first became an option (as well as when the IDE HD driver became an optional part of the IDE driver), my life would have been a *lot* easier :)
-- -Neil Moore http://www.sfhs.floyd.k12.ky.us/~amethyst/ (finger amethyst@valjean.sfhs.floyd.k12.ky.us for my Geek Code)
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