<br><br>On Saturday, August 20, 2011, ashish raste <<a href="mailto:rasteashish@gmail.com">rasteashish@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<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">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>
> - make modules<br>> - make install_modules<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>> Can anyone tell how can I recover my compiled kernel and distro's kernel?<br>
<br>Any mistake in the configuration of your new kernel should not stop you from booting from old kernel.<br>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.<br>
<br>><br>> Thankyou.<br>><br>><br>> --<br>> ~Cheers!!<br>> Ashish Raste<br>><br>> Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.<br>> -Sir Albert Einstein<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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