2008/7/8 schoappied <schoappied@xxxxxxxxx>: > About oldconfig and menu config: > > When I want to use exactly the same config file as you have (copied that > .config to the new to build kernel folder)... Should I do oldconfig and/or > xconfig? if the config-file matches the kernel version a copy should be enough as I understand it, oldconfig is only required with a new or modified kernel-version i.O. to update it for new config-options. > or just start to build that kernel? And what if the .config file is > from a much older kernel? it doesn't have all the config options then; I would expect make to fail > what will happen with the new kernel configure > options? And when you do make oldconfig.. what should be the answer to the > ask questions? just hit ENTER or N, y, m ? with some exeptions m should be ok, but just hitting enter, without understanding what happens can blaot/break your kernel config (with incompatible/unrecommended options etc.) so it's a good idea to "?" first. I would expect [enter] to choose a reasonable default, but who knows... regarding your problem: I would guess a misconfiguration of your system ( maybe it's grub, maybe fstab, initrd.img, ... ) and btw.: please don't always quote the whole message on reply just necessary phrases with direct relation. in general we all know, what has been written before in the discussion-thread... _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
