The problem with the installation of the latest kernel

[david]

Hi, guys:
     I am totally a beginner to Linux kernel and feel sorry to bother you with such an easy question.  I encountered a problem which is failed to making the latest kernel 2.6.39.1 downloaded from kernel.org bootable under the environment of Ubuntu 10.10. Although I have tried to solve this problem for almost 3 days, I don't have any clue on the cause of not able to boot the newly-installed kernel. The procedure that I adopted to configure, build and install the kernel is shown bellow
     1. I downloaded the tarball "linux-2.6.39.1.tar.bz2" and stored it in the directory "/home/lenovo/linux", then uncompressed it, a new folder 

         "linux-2.6.39.1" was created.
     2. I created a folder called "linux-2.6.39.1-install" in the same directory to store the compiled files from folder "linux-2.6.39.1".
     3. I opened the terminal and typed in:

cd ~/linux/linux-2.6.39.1
make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install defconfig
make -j4 O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install
     The result of these operations is:
                         GZIP    arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.gz
                         MKPIGGY arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S
                         AS      arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.o
                         LD      arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
                         ZOFFSET arch/x86/boot/zoffset.h
                         OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/vmlinux.bin
                         AS      arch/x86/boot/header.o
                         LD      arch/x86/boot/setup.elf
                         OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/setup.bin
                         BUILD   arch/x86/boot/bzImage
                       Root device is (7, 0)
                       Setup is 13148 bytes (padded to 13312 bytes)
                       System is 4091 kB
                       CRC 887907a3
                       Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#1)
     4. I typed in the command:
make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install modules_install
    The result is:
                       INSTALL arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.ko
                       INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
                       INSTALL drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.ko
                       INSTALL net/netfilter/xt_mark.ko
                       DEPMOD  2.6.39.1
     5.                                                                              sudo make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install install
     The result is:
                       sh /home/lenovo/linux/linux-2.6.39.1/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 2.6.39.1 arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
                                                 System.map "/boot"
     6.                                                                                 sudo update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.39.1
     The result is:
                       update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39.1
                       Warning: No support for locale: en_US.utf8
     7.                                                                                              sudo update-grub
     The result is:
                       Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39.1
                       Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39.1

Finally, after I rebooted the system and selected "Linux-2.6.39.1" in the grup, a problem arose along with a message showed up saying:
      

     mount: mounting none on /dev failed: No such device.
     w: devtmpfs not available, falling back to tmpfs for /dev
     fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe' fuse first.
     ......
     Could not mount the partition /dev/sda8.
     ......
     (file system = ntfs, error code = 21)

best regards
david.G
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