Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically
re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way?
- Grant
01-23-2009, 01:22 AM
Saphirus Sage
Deleted my kernel .config
You could look for the .config files from earlier kernels, unless
you've cleared out all your directories except the one with the most-
recent release.
On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically
re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way?
- Grant
01-23-2009, 01:28 AM
Crob
Deleted my kernel .config
Grant:
> Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically
> re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way?
>
> - Grant
>
>
>
yes if you had selected 'kernel .config support' when you made the
kernel. that's in the 'General setup'.
if you did that you'll find /proc/config.gz over there.
01-23-2009, 02:03 AM
Grant
Deleted my kernel .config
>> Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically
>> re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>>
>>
>
> yes if you had selected 'kernel .config support' when you made the
> kernel. that's in the 'General setup'.
> if you did that you'll find /proc/config.gz over there.
I do have /proc/config.gz, but when I move it to
/usr/src/2.6.25-hardened-r13 and run 'make oldconfig' it comes up with
many differences. I'm booted into 2.6.25-hardened-r11 and there
shouldn't be any config differences between that and r13. Does anyone
know what's going on here?
- Grant
01-23-2009, 02:04 AM
Volker Armin Hemmann
Deleted my kernel .config
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant wrote:
> Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically
> re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way?
>
> - Grant
there are good reasons to use debianutils+make install to install new kernels
....
01-23-2009, 04:24 AM
Dale
Deleted my kernel .config
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant wrote:
>
>> Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically
>> re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
> ls /boot
>
> ls /boot
> boot config-2.6.28r4.old grub memtest86plus
> System.map-2.6.28r4 System.map.old vmlinuz-2.6.28r4 vmlinuz.old
> config-2.6.28r4 dmesg_fsck_segfault lost+found System.map
> System.map-2.6.28r4.old vmlinuz vmlinuz-2.6.28r4.old
>
> config - there it is!
>
> there are good reasons to use debianutils+make install to install new kernels
> ....
>
>
>
Or just copy .config over to /boot yourself. I do that when I have a
stable kernel.
Dale
:-) :-)
01-23-2009, 06:37 AM
KH
Deleted my kernel .config
Saphirus Sage schrieb:
> You could look for the .config files from earlier kernels, unless
> you've cleared out all your directories except the one with the
> most-recent release.
>
> On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically
>> re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
01-23-2009, 06:44 AM
KH
Deleted my kernel .config
Dale schrieb:
>
> Or just copy .config over to /boot yourself. I do that when I have a
> stable kernel.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
>
+1
I even asked to add this to the gentoo kernel upgreat guide but devs
didn't like this idea.
kh
01-23-2009, 06:51 AM
Dirk Heinrichs
Deleted my kernel .config
Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 08:44 +0100 schrieb ext KH:
> Dale schrieb:
> >
> > Or just copy .config over to /boot yourself. I do that when I have a
> > stable kernel.
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-) :-)
> >
> >
> +1
> I even asked to add this to the gentoo kernel upgreat guide but devs
> didn't like this idea.
Maybe they would be more keen on adding a note about /proc/config
support to that guide.
KH wrote:
> Dale schrieb:
>
>> Or just copy .config over to /boot yourself. I do that when I have a
>> stable kernel.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-) :-)
>>
>>
>>
> +1
> I even asked to add this to the gentoo kernel upgreat guide but devs
> didn't like this idea.
>
> kh
>
>
>
I'll show this just in case it will give someone ides.
root@smoker / # ls -al /boot/
total 6970
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jan 16 01:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 512 Dec 17 06:07 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 11 2008 .keep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1204147 Dec 8 19:20 System.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 941986 Sep 11 2006 System.map-2.6.17-gentoo-r7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Dec 16 21:09 boot -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2460088 Jan 2 20:13 bzImage-2.6.23-r8-7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2288336 Dec 30 07:49 bzImage-2.6.27-r7-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44461 Aug 12 02:07 config-2.6.23-r8-5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47940 Dec 13 04:50 config-2.6.25-gentoo-r9-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47438 Aug 5 22:43 config-2.6.25-r7-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47324 Aug 12 17:59 config-2.6.25-r7-2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 16 01:43 grub
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jul 10 2008 lost+found
root@smoker / #
I generally name the config with the same info as the kernel. Also note
the naming of my kernels. I may need to clean out some more but I try
to keep at least two or three kernels laying around too. Never know,
one may get corrupted or deleted accidentally. Edit the grub boot line
and carry on.
Deleted my kernel .config
