Le mardi 6 janvier 2015, Sunil Shahu <sunil.rockon@xxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > Hi Sudip, > > I was building and booting kernel on VMware Player. My guest OS is Ubuntu 12.04 with 3.5.0-48-generic. I tried to boot on both Linux and Windows host with Ubuntu guest and both fails to boot the newly built kernel. > > Then I tried to boot on real hardware and linux-next boots up without any issue. > > I still had a question that is this a common when kernel do not boot up on VM? I like to prefer VM because I have only one PC and it sounds risky to install new kernel everyday. > > And thanks for the response. > Sunil Shahu. > > > On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 2:56 PM, Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Sunil Shahu <sunil.rockon@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to build and boot linux-next kernel tree. > > > > My original kernel with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was 3.5.0-23-generic. > > > > I checked out code with tag next-20141226. I generated a ".config" file with > > "make localmodconfig". I installed modules and kernel. > > On restart PC do not boot up. > > > > I then checked out tag v3.16-rc3 and booted. It worked pretty good and > > booted properly. > > > > I had few question from this exercise: > > > > 1) Why my PC didn't boot up with linux-next kernel? > > 2) Do I need to apply any specific patches to boot mainline linux-next > > kernel on my Ubuntu 12.04 PC? > > 3) How do people test mainline kernel-next? Do they apply their OS specific > > patch on linux-next tree or test linux-next on some specific OS? > > I am regularly working with linux-next, and i am using ubuntu 13.04 , > 14.04. I never had to use any patch to boot it. also tested on 10.04. > what error message you got? > > Sudip > > > > > Thanks, > > Sunil. > > Hi Were you using a working kernel config (with your VM) when compiling your kernel ? Did you compile it on your VM or on your host OS ? I use VirtualBox and Archlinux as a guest OS and never had a problem when using a custom kernel. What is the specific error you encounter when trying to boot ? Khoyo _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
