Re: Determining config options?

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> It is possible to determine the configuration options a kernel was
> compiled with purely from the kernel binary itself? Ideally I would 
> like to find this out without booting the kernel, however any 
> suggestions would be helpful.

 I found a new option CONFIG_IKCONFIG in RedHat 7.3 (kernel version
2.4.18-4). Enabling this stores the config options in the kernel image.

There is also a script to extract this from the kernel image. Guess
this is what you are looking for.

HTH,
Ravi.

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