<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:45 AM, ashish raste <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rasteashish@gmail.com">rasteashish@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Srivatsa,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On 8/20/11, Srivatsa Bhat <<a href="mailto:bhat.srivatsa@gmail.com">bhat.srivatsa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Ashish,<br>
><br>
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:48 PM, ashish raste <<a href="mailto:rasteashish@gmail.com">rasteashish@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hi all,<br>
>><br>
>> Recently I compiled and tried installing kernel (2.6.39.3), which I<br>
>> downloaded from <a href="http://kernel.org" target="_blank">kernel.org</a><br>
>> All the activity that I did was to copy the .config file of my distro<br>
>> (Ubuntu 10.10), then the following commands :<br>
>><br>
>> - make menuconfig ( I exited, keeping the default configuration )<br>
>><br>
><br>
> You can execute 'make localmodconfig' after this, to ensure that you have<br>
> all the necessary<br>
> components enabled in the .config file. It also strips off all the<br>
> unnecessary ones, which will speed up<br>
> your compilation.<br>
<br>
</div>I didn't do a 'make localmodconfig' after this.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> Did you forget to run 'make' after this stage?<br>
><br>
> - make modules<br>
>> - make install_modules<br>
>><br>
<br>
</div>Yes, I ran make and make install_modules after this stage. Forgot<br>
writing it in my previous mail.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> I run 'make modules_install' here...<br>
><br>
> - make install<br>
>> - update grub<br>
>><br>
>> All of the above commands got executed without any errors, and the new<br>
>> kernel version was also shown in the grub menu. But it showed some<br>
>> errors and didn't login.<br>
>><br>
>> When I tried logging to my Ubuntu distro, a blue login box(which is<br>
>> normally violet in color) appeared. After giving password, it came<br>
>> back again to the same screen without going inside.<br>
>><br>
>> Only thing I was able to do was to dropping in root mode (from<br>
>> Ubuntu's recovery mode u\in the grub menu) and looking at all of my<br>
>> data through terminal without a GUI.<br>
>><br>
>> Do you see a prompt like this ?:<br>
> grub><br>
<br>
</div>I didn't see a prompt of grub> Instead the following errors were<br>
listed on the black screen :<br>
<br>
[ 2.4331....] Error: Driver 'mdio-gpio' is already registered. aborting...<br>
[ 2.8364... ] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root<br>
fs on unknown-block(0,0)<br>
[ ......... ] Pid: 1. comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.39.3 #1<br>
[ ...... ] Call Trace:<br>
<br>
and list of errors in this trace.<br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote><div><br>Hi Ashish,<br><br> I am not sure if this will help but you can try burning a system rescue CD and <br>using it to fix the issue. I believe you will be able to get back atleast your original<br>
Ubuntu with full GUI..<br><br>Here is the link:<br><a href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Download">http://www.sysresccd.org/Download</a><br><br>Regards,<br>Srivatsa S. Bhat<br></div></div>