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 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
