Hi Srivatsa, On 8/20/11, Srivatsa Bhat <bhat.srivatsa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ashish, > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:48 PM, ashish raste <rasteashish@xxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
