Stupid question about the kernel

alienjon · Veteran Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1726

Ok people, without boring you all on the layout of my computer, let me just say that I have a storage drive that I use to share files between Linux and Windows XP. Because it's gotta be able to be read by windows I have it NTFS. Up and to this point I have been a little wary of using the NTFS writing support so if I wanted anything downloaded or saved onto the storage drive I would do so through windows. Now, a few months after the experimental tag has been removed from it, I would like to try out the write suppot. I updated my gentoo-sources to the latest version (2.6.13-r5) and went into the kernel to turn on the write support (I'll admit, bluetooth as well since I want to goof around with that in the near future

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I leave the menuconfig (I don't use genkernel), compiled, copied the appropriate files, updated Lilo and rebooted. When I got back into linux I noticed that I couldn't write anything to the storage drive. Just because I had a hunch, I checked and the kernel version didn't update, it's still my old version (2.6.12-r9) I went back into menuconfig and at the top of the screen I noticed that it also had my old kernel version listed at the top. Am I doing something wrong in updating the sources? I haven't had this problem before, I would just update my system (emerge --sync;emerge -uND world) and everything would be nice and dandy when I updated so I'm betting that I am missing something very basic here.

chrbecke · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:16 pm Post subject:

Maybe your /usr/src/linux symlink points to the wrong dir?
You have to update the symlink manually if you emerge a new kernel source:

dsd · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:

try the kernel upgrade guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml

you should be aware that while the NTFS write support is safe, it is *very* limited. you cannot create or delete files or directories, infact pretty much the only thing you can do is modify a file provided that you do not change its size at all.
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alienjon · Veteran Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1726

Thanks for the prompt responses. Looking at the Kernel guide I see the symlink USE flag, is there anything I should be aware of or cautious about if I add that to my make.conf?