[gobolinux-users] Re: kernel "types" .config files: normal, SCSI, SMP, SMP-SCSI

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 6/17/06, teique <teique at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hisham Muhammad wrote:
> > On 6/17/06, teique <teique at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> >> > On 6/17/06, teique <teique at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> as my HD is SATA, it only boots with kernel...-SCSI
> > (snip)
> >> if u could email me the file u used to create the kernel...-SCSI I would
> >> really appreciate it ^^,
> >
> > You missed the part where he explained you already have the file:
> >
> but that file (/proc/config.gz) isnt configured to SCSI afaik... as it
> refers to default kernel kernel-2.6.11.9-Gobo w/o SCSI support (I
> couldnt boot with it, only with the SCSI one)

It is a virtual file. It refers to whatever kernel you are running at
the time. You said you booted with kernel-SCSI, so just boot that and
grab its /proc/config.gz.

> if I am right, each time you compile the kernel using "Compile linux"
> you can generate only one kernel file at /System/Kernel/Boot

No. Only one is named "kernel" but the others stay there available.
You can select them with GRUB.

> based on that, I can guess that /proc/config.gz refers to the default
> one that is kernel-2.6.11.9-Gobo right?

Wrong. :)

-- Hisham