<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7692052163yui_3_16_0_1_1420537164100_22408" class="" style=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420537164100_34175" class="" style="">Hi Sudip,</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7692052163yui_3_16_0_1_1420537164100_22408" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7692052163yui_3_16_0_1_1420537164100_22408" class="" style=""><span class="" id="yiv7692052163yui_3_16_0_1_1420537164100_22571" style="">I was building and booting kernel on VMware Player. </span>My guest OS is Ubuntu 12.04 with 3.5.0-48-generic. I tried to boot on both Linux and Windows host with Ubuntu guest and both fails to boot the newly built kernel.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7692052163yui_3_16_0_1_1420537164100_22408" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7692052163yui_3_16_0_1_1420537164100_22408" class="" style=""><span id="yiv7692052163yui_3_16_0_1_1420537164100_23776" class="" style="">Then I tried to boot on real hardware and linux-next boots up without any issue.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7692052163yui_3_16_0_1_1420537164100_22408" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7692052163yui_3_16_0_1_1420537164100_22408" class="" style="">I still had a question that is this a common when kernel do not boot up on VM? I like to prefer VM because I have only one PC and it sounds risky to install new kernel everyday.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7692052163yui_3_16_0_1_1420537164100_22408" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7692052163yui_3_16_0_1_1420537164100_22408" class="" style="">And thanks for the response.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv7692052163yui_3_16_0_1_1420537164100_22408" class="" style="">Sunil Shahu.</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 2:56 PM, Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Sunil Shahu <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:sunil.rockon@yahoo.in" href="mailto:sunil.rockon@yahoo.in">sunil.rockon@yahoo.in</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> Hi,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I am trying to build and boot linux-next kernel tree.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> My original kernel with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was 3.5.0-23-generic.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I checked out code with tag next-20141226. I generated a ".config" file with<br clear="none">> "make localmodconfig". I installed modules and kernel.<br clear="none">> On restart PC do not boot up.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I then checked out tag v3.16-rc3 and booted. It worked pretty good and<br clear="none">> booted properly.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I had few question from this exercise:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> 1) Why my PC didn't boot up with linux-next kernel?<br clear="none">> 2) Do I need to apply any specific patches to boot mainline linux-next<br clear="none">> kernel on my Ubuntu 12.04 PC?<br clear="none">> 3) How do people test mainline kernel-next? Do they apply their OS specific<br clear="none">> patch on linux-next tree or test linux-next on some specific OS?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I am regularly working with linux-next, and i am using ubuntu 13.04 ,<br clear="none">14.04. I never had to use any patch to boot it. also tested on 10.04.<br clear="none">what error message you got?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sudip<br clear="none"><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Thanks,<br clear="none">> Sunil.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Kernelnewbies mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org" href="mailto:Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org">Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies" target="_blank">http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies</a><div class="yqt2367576774" id="yqtfd38820"><br clear="none">><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Kernelnewbies mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org" href="mailto:Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org">Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies" target="_blank">http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>