On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 12:13 PM Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/24/21, Aruna Hewapathirane <aruna.hewapathirane@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 6:21 AM Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen <t@laumann.xyz> wrote:
I am trying to compile a old kernel and it compiles fine. I used: time make -j$(nproc) and this is a-ok and works. make modules_install works fine. Now when I try to install the newly compiled kernel I get this error below.
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.18.2-testing (x86_64)
Just to be clear: This is what you get when running "sudo make install" ?
Yes, I was getting that error when running "sudo make install". I have manually removed all instances of VirtualBox and any guest additions and that warning went away. But now I have another problem. After compilation grub menu shows the new kernel. When I select the new kernel it goes through all the usual steps of booting then hangs at the graphical login screen where I no longer have a mouse and Ctrl+Alt+F1 does not work either .
Hi from a perennial lurker here! Disclaimer up front: My apologies if you're already doing this step.
out all things "/boot" while running LILO instead of GRUB2 for 14 or so different bootable partitions.
Hi, I thought 'I' was the only person insane enough to have multiple partitions that run Linux ? 14 or so partitions ? Yikes ! Let's see how many I have managed to create over the years : aruna@debian:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 232.9G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 212.2G 0 part /media/aruna/OS ├─sda3 8:3 0 1K 0 part ├─sda5 8:5 0 19.7G 0 part / └─sda6 8:6 0 903M 0 part [SWAP] sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 250G 0 part /media/aruna/Ubuntu 12.04.4 L ├─sdb2 8:18 0 250G 0 part /media/aruna/kernel-stuff ├─sdb3 8:19 0 16.8G 0 part /media/aruna/back-up ├─sdb4 8:20 0 1K 0 part ├─sdb5 8:21 0 204G 0 part /media/aruna/3c8fce17-5948-43e7-9662-921e65c7faa7 ├─sdb6 8:22 0 196.9G 0 part /media/aruna/200f9328-ae6b-4fe9-9d94-24ffd391bbe9 ├─sdb7 8:23 0 6.2G 0 part └─sdb8 8:24 0 7.7G 0 part sdh 8:112 1 3.7G 0 disk ├─sdh1 8:113 1 2.4G 0 part /media/aruna/d-live 10.10.0 ma amd64 └─sdh2 8:114 1 2.5M 0 part sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom Darn! You beat me by one partition but it is a close second eh ? Can't count the sdh that has the Debian 10 live CD I just plugged in :-)
In my case, my experience is with Debian doing similar versions of this over the last year or so. I tripped over that I was mismatching e.g. my initrd.img and vmlinuz instances in an attempt at separating
Believe me I am feeling the pain you must have felt at that time right now. And this is really interesting what you have shared, makes me wonder now.
My stumbled upon fix was to run "update-initramfs -u" then double check to make sure that that latest update matched the location LILO was using to call up those partition-specific files. As an example, I have a "lilo" subdirectory under /boot then each operating system has its own deeper subdirectory. Those subdirectories hold copies of each system's initrd.img and vmlinuz.
I have always used GRUB2 so now I have to read about "lilo" I guess. Thanks.
Ever since I started very carefully double checking everything after each update that triggered LILO to run, I haven't been locked out since, not once. Prior to this (really just a few weeks ago), I faced every possible form of lockout that you're describing plus occasionally also hitting that blank screen where the login prompt doesn't even bother to appear. The experience has been so empowering that I'm preparing to test drive syslinux, too, something I've actually "feared" until a couple weeks ago. :)
You 'feared' syslinux ? There was a time long years ago I had accidentally opened up a shell/terminal and I just sat there for a good 30 minutes unsure what the hell do I do now ? I was too afraid to x-out and close that window because I had no idea what it would or would not do. And I had no clue what to type in that bash shell either. Those were the good old days :-)
Hope this helps someone at some point... somewhere.. somehow.
It has most definitely helped me. I will be back with more questions as I proceed to try and troubleshoot this mess I have created. Thank you very much for sharing - Aruna
Cindy :) -- * runs with birdseed *
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