[ Kernel not booting up ]

[Prashant Shah]

Hi Ashish,

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Kaustubh Ashtekar <ksashtekar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Saturday, August 20, 2011, 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.

Please try this method:

http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_ubuntu