Okay, so I installed fedora core 2 the other week and I quickly found that I needed to recompile my kernel in order to get the Nvidia driver to work.

So I followed the directions on another forum and they worked perfectly. I downloaded the latest 2.6.6 kernel (the whole thing, not a patch), and did a make oldconfig...but now I can't see my NTFS partitions (b/c the NTFS driver was for the original 2.6.5 kernel).

I know the 2.6 kernel has NTFS support built in, but when I go into my 2.6.6 source directory and do a "make gconfig" all the default options are checked...not the "custom" set of options that are running on my 2.6.6 kernel as we speak. Whenever I try to configure the kernel myself I always get error messages on the boot (there are only like 40 billion options to check).

My question is, is there an easy way to "tweak" my kernel (just turn a few things on/off), or will I just have to CAREFULLY go through the 40 billion options?

-teet

Before you ran "make oldconfig" did you copy the ".config" file from your old source directory?

If you selected "Kernel .config support" in your whne you compiled the kernel you are curently running then you can also get it by running:
cd /path/to/src/dir
cat /proc/config.gz | gunzip > .config

yes...I followed the directions from this site:

http://linuxiso.org/forums/viewtopic...a09eac48a6c6df

I also tried the following command:

cp /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/configs/kernel-2.6.5-i686.config /usr/src/linux-2.6.6/test.config

and then ran "make gconfig" and tried to load the "test.config" file...but it still just gave me the default options instead of the custom options.

(note: i DO NOT currently have kernel .config support enabled)

-teet

Try running:
cp /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/.config /usr/src/linux-2.6.6/.config

Overwrite the file if asked, then:
make gconfig

cp: cannot stat `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/.config': No such file or directory

I also tried:

cp /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/configs/kernel-2.6.5-i686.config /usr/src/linux-2.6.6/.config

and running "make gconfig" but it didn't work either.

Thanks for trying

-teet

If you didn't have a .config file in your old source directory then it must have been deleted or you ran make clean. You have probably lost your current configuration but make sure you make a backup of your .config file this time after you have built the kernel.