On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 12:15 AM, ashish raste <rasteashish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Hi Arshish! Looks like you forgot to add support for your ATA/SATA controller. I suppose you should boot up with any working kernel (maybe provided with LiveCD) and use this config as starting point for your custom building: zcat /proc/config.gz > .config make and so on... _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
