Problem in compiling kernel

[Daniel Baluta]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Ponkumaran Annadurai
<aspkumaran at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> >>> I got struck in making initrd file, I got the following error
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> root at rocker:/boot# mkinitramfs -o  initrd.img-2.6.39.1 2.6.39.1Y
>> >>
>> >> 2.6.39.1Y? - shouldn't it be 2.6.39.1.
>> >
>> > Daniel, I guess Ponkumaran did something (wrong) with extra
>> > version...what do you think?
>>
>>
>> Mulyadi, I don't see how he could have changed EXTRA_VERSION from
>> Makefile.
>>
> No, I didn do anything in the Makefile
>>
>> Ponkumaran, could you try running:
>> # mkinitramfs -o  initrd.img-2.6.39.1 2.6.39.1
>>
> I tried this one first but I was prompted that the folder 2.6.39.1 is not
> found in /lib/modules. Then I found a folder named 2.6.39.1Y thats why I
> used this name. But now I guess that this Y is given by me during
> configuration in the place for local version option. Is that any problem
> with that?

I don't know :). I would recommend you to start a fresh install. It's
obvious that you've did something wrong in the first time.

Compiling the kernel should be fairly easy.
thanks,
Daniel.