If you are lucky you can get the current parameters from /boot/config-[kernel version]. Otherwise, take note of your filesystems and hardware, and if in doubt say "yes". On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Shawn wrote: > I'm planning on compiling a kernel tonight. This is my second attempt > at doing so, last time having completely botched it. This is an older > box, so if I mess it up, I'm not too worried. > > I'm curious as to how to get the current kernel parameters? I tried > to do a strings against vmlinuz, but the output is pretty crappy. I'd > like to have this information for comparisons. I'm not puling a new > kernel down, just want to modify options within this one to optimize > it (CPU, network, SCSI, etc...) and see if I can recompile a kernel > successfuly this time. > > I've got the steps to do it, but just now sure of how to get the > current kernel info now. If I do a lsmod, it only shows the modules > loaded. > > -- Daniel Taylor dante at argle.org Forget diamonds, Copyright is forever. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list