Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76737
Instructions for building a custom kernel leave out a required step
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:57 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: On page 258 of the Red Hat 8.0 Customization Guide, the third paragragh is: "If you want to use the settings of a default Red Hat Linux kernel, copy the configuration file from the /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs directory to /usr/src/linux-2.4/.config. Then, run the 'make xconfig' command and only make the desired changes. Be sure to save your changes to the configuration file." Because I had no desired changes, I did not run 'make xconfig'. The next paragraph begins with: "Other available methods for kernel configuration are listed below:" Further down the page is item 6: "6. After creating a /usr/src/linux-2.4/.config file, use the command 'make dep' to set up all the dependencies correctly." Somewhere between the third paragraph and item 6, a clear statement needs to be added to tell the reader that it is insufficient to simply copy an existing configuration file to /usr/src/linux-2.4/.config, but that one of the xconfig/config/menuconfig/oldconfig targets *MUST* be updated also. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhl-cg(EN)-8.0-Print-RHI (2002-08-14T17:28-0400) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Read page 258 of the Red Hat Linux 8.0 Customization Guide. Actual Results: Because I did not run 'make oldconfig' after copying a configuration file to /usr/src/linux-2.4/.config, I could not update the dependencies using 'make dep' without errors. Additional info: Please see bug report 75359 for the origin of this bug report.
Thank you for the help. I will look into the problem more thoroughly and make sure it is documented clearer in the next version.
I added a sentence at the end of the third paragraph saying that you must run make xconfig or equivalent before continuing. It will appear in the next version.