[ Kernel not booting up ]

[Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:18 AM, ashish raste <rasteashish at 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 )
> - make modules
> - make install_modules
> - 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.
>
> Can anyone tell how can I recover my compiled kernel and distro's kernel?
>
> I think you should rather ask this question on ubuntu mailing list. it
hardly seems a kernel issue. its mostly an X related problem.
secondly, try to look into log messages e.g. dmesg and /var/log/message(not
sure about the location on ubuntu though)
thirdly, its possible that .config is incorrect.
with this info, one can hardly tell what is going on.


> Thankyou.
>
>
> --
> ~Cheers!!
> Ashish Raste
>
> Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
> -Sir Albert Einstein
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