[ Kernel not booting up ]

[Kaustubh Ashtekar]

On Saturday, August 20, 2011, ashish raste <rasteashish at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently I compiled and tried installing kernel (2.6.39.3), which I
> downloaded from kernel.org
> All the activity that I did was to copy the .config file of my distro
> (Ubuntu 10.10), then the following commands :
>
> - make menuconfig ( I exited, keeping the default configuration )
> - make modules
> - make install_modules
> - make install
> - update grub
>
> All of the above commands got executed without any errors, and the new
> kernel version was also shown in the grub menu. But it showed some
> errors and didn't login.
>
> When I tried logging to my Ubuntu distro, a blue login box(which is
> normally violet in color) appeared. After giving password, it came
> back again to the same screen without going inside.
>
> Only thing I was able to do was to dropping in root mode (from
> Ubuntu's recovery mode u\in the grub menu) and looking at all of my
> data through terminal without a GUI.
>
> Can anyone tell how can I recover my compiled kernel and distro's kernel?

Any mistake in the configuration of your new kernel should not stop you from
booting from old kernel.
It seems from your mail that even your old kernel has stopped working !!! ..
If this is correct then this could be a problem of grub configuration.

>
> Thankyou.
>
>
> --
> ~Cheers!!
> Ashish Raste
>
> Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
> -Sir Albert Einstein
>
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