[ale] SuSE 8.2, Building a kernel

[BruceG]

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 17:42, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 23:22, BruceG wrote:
> > Under SuSE, is that the /boot/vmlinuz.config file? If so - then yes, I
> > have it. I copied /boot/vmlinuz.config to /usr/src/linux/.config - then
> > went from there.
>
> As Mr. Kinney mentioned, make oldconfig will take you where you want to be,
> unless you really are interested in a lightweight kernel. A smaller kernel
> has little value on a reasonably modern system. It's guys like me who
> insist on clinging to old clunkers that benefit the most from it.

On my first pass through I did do a make oldconfig, and defaulted on the new 
options. But I got a kernel panic, no reiser support. I think that's because 
I didn't do a mkinitrd - or whatever that is (more manual reading). So that's 
when I decided to do a make menuconfig and look at the options to build them 
in. 

On the SuSE kernel and the bootsplash. Is that required, or can I do a clean 
kernel from kernel.org? What does the bootsplash provide?

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