Re: [Off topic] Re: CD Burning....

[Sean Murphy <murphy erim-int com>]

Looking at my own system, I seem to have a /usr/src/linux/configs/ directory,
and in there I have the following files:

kernel-2.2.16-i386-BOOT.config
kernel-2.2.16-i386-smp.config
kernel-2.2.16-i586-smp.config
kernel-2.2.16-i686-enterprise.config
kernel-2.2.16-i686-smp.config
kernel-2.2.16-i686.config

my /etc/lilo.conf has the following entries:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22smp
        label=linux
        read-only
        root=/dev/hda5
        append="mem=128M"

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
        label=linux-up
        read-only
        root=/dev/hda5
        append="mem=128M"

My default is to boot into linux (which uses vmlinuz-2.2.16-22smp), but I'm
not sure which kernel config this is.  I have a 350 MHz Pentium II as the
CPU, so I'm hoping I'm using the kernel-2.2.16-i686-smp.config configuration,
but I could be using any of the smp ones I guess.  I'm not sure how I can
narrow down which one I'm actually using.

Bruce Stephens wrote:

> jens-reimer t-online de writes:
>
> > On  4 Jan, Bruce Stephens wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > >The kernel doesn't store its configuration anywhere.  There have been
> > >proposals to make this available in some /proc file somewhere, but I
> > >don't think it's been done.  Your best bet is to look in
> > >/usr/share/doc/<package name>, where <package name> is the name of the
> > >kernel image package.  It may be that the configuration gets copied
> > >there.  That would make lots of sense, anyway.
> >
> > Sure it stores its configuration.
> > Try /usr/src/linux/.config
>
> That's certainly where I'd expect to find it if I built my own kernel.
> There's no guarantee that that's the same configuration as the kernel
> that's actually being run at the time, of course (which was what the
> /proc idea was for).
>
> What do you do if you've got a kernel binary package?  Do Red Hat's
> kernel image packages also provide /usr/src/linux/.config?
>
> [...]
>
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