<html><body><div style="color:; background-color:; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>My platform is Intel 32 bit. <br></div><div>I am using kernel 2.6.35-22 generic for these steps and the newly compiled kernel is 2.6.39<br></div><div>Here's my steps:</div><div>$make defconfig<br></div><div>$make -j2 CC="ccache gcc"</div><div>$make modules</div><div>#make modules_install</div><div>#make install</div><div>#update-grub</div><div><br></div><div>After these sequence of steps, I tried to boot into the new kernel and there was nothing (except for the blinking caps lock) .So I checked and there was no initrd.img in /boot. So I tried using mkinitranfs and it created the ramdisk and then I booted but still it won't work.</div><div>Though I can boot into recovery mode but the shell prompt is strange like (initramfs)... <br><span></span></div></div></body></html>