Hi, guys:
I am totally a beginner to Linux kernel and feel sorry to bother you with such an easy question. I encountered a problem which is failed to making the latest kernel 2.6.39.1 downloaded from kernel.org bootable under the environment of Ubuntu 10.10. Although I have tried to solve this problem for almost 3 days, I don't have any clue on the cause of not able to boot the newly-installed kernel. The procedure that I adopted to configure, build and install the kernel is shown bellow
1. I downloaded the tarball "linux-2.6.39.1.tar.bz2" and stored it in the directory "/home/lenovo/linux", then uncompressed it, a new folder
"linux-2.6.39.1" was created.
2. I created a folder called "linux-2.6.39.1-install" in the same directory to store the compiled files from folder "linux-2.6.39.1".
3. I opened the terminal and typed in:
cd ~/linux/linux-2.6.39.1
make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install defconfig
make -j4 O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install
The result of these operations is:
GZIP arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.gz
MKPIGGY arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S
AS arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.o
LD arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
ZOFFSET arch/x86/boot/zoffset.h
OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/vmlinux.bin
AS arch/x86/boot/header.o
LD arch/x86/boot/setup.elf
OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/setup.bin
BUILD arch/x86/boot/bzImage
Root device is (7, 0)
Setup is 13148 bytes (padded to 13312 bytes)
System is 4091 kB
CRC 887907a3
Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#1)
MKPIGGY arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S
AS arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.o
LD arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
ZOFFSET arch/x86/boot/zoffset.h
OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/vmlinux.bin
AS arch/x86/boot/header.o
LD arch/x86/boot/setup.elf
OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/setup.bin
BUILD arch/x86/boot/bzImage
Root device is (7, 0)
Setup is 13148 bytes (padded to 13312 bytes)
System is 4091 kB
CRC 887907a3
Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#1)
4. I typed in the command:
make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install modules_install
The result is:
INSTALL arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.ko
INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
INSTALL drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.ko
INSTALL net/netfilter/xt_mark.ko
DEPMOD 2.6.39.1
INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
INSTALL drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.ko
INSTALL net/netfilter/xt_mark.ko
DEPMOD 2.6.39.1
5. sudo make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install install
The result is:
sh /home/lenovo/linux/linux-2.6.39.1/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 2.6.39.1 arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
System.map "/boot"
System.map "/boot"
6. sudo update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.39.1
The result is:
update-initramfs: Generating
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.39.1Warning: No support for locale: en_US.utf8
7. sudo update-grub
The result is:
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39.1
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39.1
Finally, after I rebooted the system and selected "Linux-2.6.39.1" in the grup, a problem arose along with a message showed up saying:
mount: mounting none on /dev failed: No such device.
w: devtmpfs not available, falling back to tmpfs for /dev
fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe' fuse first.
......
Could not mount the partition /dev/sda8.
......
(file system = ntfs, error code = 21)
best regards
david.G
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