custom kernel install - query

Sengottuvelan S sengottuvelan.s at gmail.com
Wed Dec 22 00:09:45 EST 2010


Hi Srinivas,

Even doing update-grub command , I was not able to see new menu-entry
in /boot/grub/grub.cfg . Somehow , "update-grub"  not catching "*
initrd-img-2.6.35.9-custom"*  in the boot

Any help on this highly appreciated

root at ubuntu:/boot# ls
abi-2.6.32-24-generic         memtest86+.bin
config-2.6.32-24-generic      System.map-2.6.32-24-generic
config-2.6.35.9               System.map-2.6.35.9
grub                          vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-24-generic
initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic
*initrd-img-2.6.35.9-custom*    vmlinuz-2.6.35.9
initrd-img-kernel-2.6.35.9
root at ubuntu:/boot# update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.9
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic
*Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic
*Found Microsoft Windows XP Professional on /dev/sda2
done
root at ubuntu:/boot#



On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Srinivas G. <
srinivasg at esntechnologies.co.in> wrote:

> > > On Ubuntu 10.10, you need to update /etc/default/grub and then use
> > > 'sudo update-grub' to update your configuration.
> > >
> >
> > I see, thanks for the info on grub2 guys! If the files were copied to
> > /boot it sounds like the original poster just needs to update grub. I
> > still don't understand how the files got copied tho, I always have to
> > dpkg them myself (not done at the make-kpkg stage) and grub is taken
> > care of then.
>
> On Ubuntu systems, just follow the following steps for building the new
> kernel images.
>
> Note: I build the kernel image as a ROOT, here. So, I did not use the
> SUDO.
>
> 1) Download the required kernel version TAR ball from the www.kernel.org
> and extract it in the /usr/src directory.
> 2) Change into the newly created directory.
> 3) Build the kernel with the following set of commands from
> /usr/src/linux directory. Here the linux is a link to the newly created
> directory.
> 4) Then run the following commands.
> # make mrproper
> # make clean
> # make menuconfig  - Just exit from the GUI menu by pressing YES.
> # make prepare
> # make menuconfig        - Do the modifications, whatever you want.
> # make clean
> # make bzImage   (capital L letter in bzImage)
> # make modules
> # make modules_install
> # make install
>
> Then, build the initrd file with the following command from anywhere,
> however you need to copy the build initrd file explicitly to the /boot
> directory.
> # mkinitramfs -o initrd-img-kernel-version kernel-version
>
> Finally, update the grub with the following command from /boot directory
> and restart the system. By default it boots into the newly build kernel
> image.
> # update-grub
>
> For more information on Grub follow the link
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Srinivas G
>
>


-- 
Regards,
S. Sengottuvelan.
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