[olug] Compiling 2.4.14 Kernel for GRUB (monolithic)

Don Kauffman dkauffman at tconl.com
Mon Nov 12 16:28:32 UTC 2001


I gotcha! What I had been doing was "make Menuconfig" Menuconfig is the script-based
configure option. I've just now tried "make menuconfig" and it worked! Funny how the
case makes a difference   . . . .

Thanks, Mike.

Don
Mike Hostetler wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:25:09AM -0600, Don Kauffman wrote:
> > It's funny this comes  up now because I'm having a heck of a time getting all
> > the pieces assembled for a compile. Menuconfig, at least the one I have, is a
> > bash shell script off the source CD (redhat 7.2) unless there's another package
> > somewhere that has it as source.
>
> menuconfig is part of the standard kernel source . . .it should be
> present regardless of distro.  Note that you have to be in the top-level
> of the kernel source, and type "make menuconfig".  It will quickly
> compile the menuconfig program and run it.  The menuconfig program requires
> ncurses, so maybe you don't have that installed, or it can't find the
> include files.
>
> Note that each time you want to configure your kernel with menuconfig, you have
> you to type "make menuconfig".
>
> I *know* "make menuconfig" works for 2.4.14, because I used it yesterday.
>
> Mike
>
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