Sorry, my email client somewhat broke... On 16 January 2013 21:22, Leonid V. Fedorenchik <leonidsbox@gmail.com>wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:47:08 +0530 Shraddha Kamat <sh2008ka@gmail.com> wrote:

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I normally do the kernel configuration on my machine like this -

* copy the distro configuration file to the kernel dir * make menuconfig (answer Y's/N's/M's) Normally keep return key pressed for default answers * then do the actual kernel compilation

Now, I know that this is not a clean way to do the kernel compilation (although it has worked for me for thousands of times that I have compiled and successfully booted up with the kernel - without any issues - whatsoever !)

But this time , I am bent upon coming up with a configuration specifically targeted to my machine. What is the best way to do this ?

Although I am not professional in this, I would suggest to read Linux Kernel in a Nutshell by Greg Kroah-Hartman which is available online at http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ . Specifically, Chapter 8 provides good details about custom configurations.

Hope this helps.

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Also, while creating a initrd image

# mkinitrd /boot/initramfs.img 3.8.0-rc3+ -f ERROR: modinfo: could not find module ipt_MASQUERADE ERROR: modinfo: could not find module iptable_nat ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nf_nat ERROR: modinfo: could not find module snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi ERROR: modinfo: could not find module joydev

I got the above errors - I know how to resolve these errors , but want to understand why in the first place mkinitrd should complain in the first place ??

Thanks list for help for all these years.

-- Shraddha

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