No Default Configuration for New Install

[omni814]

I am installing Gentoo, with the latest kernel 2.6.24.3.

When I get to the point where I configure the kernel, I type in 'make menuconfig', and it opens up the configuration screen. When I have installed Gentoo before, it came with the basics already selected, and I would just go in and tweak things which I knew I didn't need or added things I needed. There seems now to be no default configuration in the kernel, and I am not sure what I need to select to have my system basically function correctly. Is there someplace where I can download a default working configuration and work from that?

I would rather not use genkernel.

I am not a newb, I am comfortable with the command line, but I don't have the knowledge to know everything which I need to put into the kernel.

I have followed the Handbook, and ran 'emerge portage' so I have the latest snapshot.

Thanks.

[nixnut]

make defconfig should generate a generic config file. You could also make a copy of the config of the livecd kernel: zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config
Then add and remove stuff with menuconfig. You'll want to make sure you include the driver for your sata controller. That will be a module in the livecd kernel, but must be builtin in your kernel. It needs it to be able to read the disk and loading a module from a disk that can't be read yet won't work.
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[omni814]

Thanks very much