building a kernel from a mounted partition

[Andy Johnson]

Thanks
Sorry for my ignorance - by checking timezone do you mean some
environment variable ? I don't know much about admin tasks as you can figure...
Andy

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 5:03 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:05:57 +0300, Andy Johnson said:
>> Hello,
>> I have a dual boot machine, Ubuntu/Fedora.
>> I have a kernel tree on the fedora partition.
>> Now, I had build a kernel on the Fedora partition successfully.
>>
>>  I did **not** change anything in the tree, and then
>>
>> When I boot into Ubuntu and mount the fedora partition, and
>> go there and run "make" , it builds ** all **  the tree again ! any I
>> idea why ?
>>
>> And after the build on Ubuntu is over successfully, if I boot into
>> Fedora again and run make, it **again** builds all the tree.
>>
>> Is there a way to avoid this ?
>
> Check that your timezone is set correctly in both installs - having the
> time ping-ponged back and forth at each reboot can cause such issues.
>