On 09/28/2011 04:25 PM, Julie Sullivan wrote: > Hi Scott > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:11 AM, scott<redhowlingwolves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I compiled a 3.0.0-rc7 kernel. Everything went smoothly except it >> doesn't show in the grub menu even after doing sudo update-grub. I see >> the kernel in /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Everything appears right with the >> UUID's and all. I noticed in /boot it doesn't list the abi-3.0-rc7. >> System-map initrd-img, vmlinux and config are all there. >> >> Would the missing abi- keep grub from recognizing it or am I barking up >> the wrong tree. If it is, how do I go about creating the abi short of >> recompiling. > > I'm using Ubuntu and looking in my boot directory the only abi-* files > are those of the 3 distro-native kernels (in fact I only noticed they > existed when I read your email.) None of my own kernels have them (or > had them even before I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 as I recall). And all > the kernels (about 20-30) are installed and booting OK. So maybe it's > not that. > > There are a couple of things you could check though: > > - You're not naming your kernel something odd. You can build the > kernel fine of course and do a make modules_install, but when I've > misnamed a kernel (I've accidentally used underscores instead of > hyphens before) update-grub (which is run automatically on make > install on Ubuntu 11.04) complains and refuses to install it. > > - Your /boot isn't full. Mine maxes out at about 50 kernels with > their associated files. Again, the new kernel will not be installed if > it's full :-) > > Assuming it's not either of those I can't immediately think of what > the problem is. Sorry - this is probably not especially helpful. > > Cheers > Julie > No naming convention problems. /boot is not full either. I'm stumped on this one. Thanks for the reply anyway, Scott PS: Sorry for the post to your private email, Pritam. I hit the 'reply' button instead of 'reply-to-list'. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
