Hi Srivatsa, On 8/20/11, Srivatsa Bhat <bhat.srivatsa@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ashish,
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:48 PM, ashish raste <rasteashish@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Recently I compiled and tried installing kernel (2.6.39.3), which I downloaded from kernel.org All the activity that I did was to copy the .config file of my distro (Ubuntu 10.10), then the following commands :
- make menuconfig ( I exited, keeping the default configuration )
You can execute 'make localmodconfig' after this, to ensure that you have all the necessary components enabled in the .config file. It also strips off all the unnecessary ones, which will speed up your compilation.
I didn't do a 'make localmodconfig' after this.
Did you forget to run 'make' after this stage?
- make modules
- make install_modules
Yes, I ran make and make install_modules after this stage. Forgot writing it in my previous mail.
I run 'make modules_install' here...
- make install
- update grub
All of the above commands got executed without any errors, and the new kernel version was also shown in the grub menu. But it showed some errors and didn't login.
When I tried logging to my Ubuntu distro, a blue login box(which is normally violet in color) appeared. After giving password, it came back again to the same screen without going inside.
Only thing I was able to do was to dropping in root mode (from Ubuntu's recovery mode u\in the grub menu) and looking at all of my data through terminal without a GUI.
Do you see a prompt like this ?: grub>
I didn't see a prompt of grub> Instead the following errors were listed on the black screen : [ 2.4331....] Error: Driver 'mdio-gpio' is already registered. aborting... [ 2.8364... ] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) [ ......... ] Pid: 1. comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.39.3 #1 [ ...... ] Call Trace: and list of errors in this trace. -- ~Cheers!! Ashish Raste Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -Sir Albert Einstein