On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:15:38PM +0530, Naman shekhar Mishra wrote:
My platform is Intel 32 bit.
I am using kernel 2.6.35-22 generic for these steps and the newly compiled kernel is 2.6.39
Here's my steps:
Typically, I precede with 'make mrproper', but AFAIK it won't make a difference if you are compiling a brand new source tree, and doing so _within_ it (ie without a separate build directory.)
$make defconfig
I always go over the resulting .config anyway, to ensure -- though I admit that that can be very time-consuming if you have not done it before.
$make -j2 CC="ccache gcc" $make modules #make modules_install #make install #update-grub
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. Though I can boot into recovery mode but the shell prompt is strange like (initramfs)...
Typically, when I am getting an 'initramfs' shell-prompt, I have to tackle issues other than mkinitramfs. The solution has (IIRC) always been to add missing options in the .config file. The lines immediately preceding the shell prompt give a hint as to where things (eg which options) croaked! later, ali