From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mmucciolo@suteba.org.ar (Matias Mucciolo) Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 12:22:41 -0300 Subject: Cannot boot to compiled kernel In-Reply-To: References: <6E03D880-1A65-4347-BF16-8F5D977B80E2@gmail.com> Message-ID: <22416614.elqnZsu95d@varitech> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Thursday 03 November 2016 00:56:21 Daniel. wrote: > 2016-11-02 9:27 GMT-02:00 Quentin Lambert : > > > Hi, > > On 11/02/2016 12:05 PM, Daniel Bokser wrote: > > > Now I am thrown into the recovery shell with an 'Unable to find root > > device /dev/sdc2' (my SSD). > > > The real strange thing is that the (PS/2) keyboard doesn't work, so I > > can't even run commands. > > > Tried also USB keyboard to no avail. > > > I also have a bunch of "Unknown symbol" errors from scsi_mod which fill > > most of the screen. > > > > > > I'm thinking the RAM disk is bad, but not sure. No amount of Google-fu > > was able to help me out with this one. > > > > > I had a similar problem, check to see if the RAM is ok but the problem > > might be due to something else. > > > > I was able to make it work thanks to this e-mail: > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/19/271 > > > > > > I changed to > > > > CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=n > > > > But naively applying the patches mentioned in the e-mail did not work for > > me > > and I haven't had the time to look further into the problem and give > > relevant > > feedback to the thread. > > > > Quentin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kernelnewbies mailing list > > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > > > > I would suggest you to compile ssd and ps2 keyboard drivers built in, so > even if some goes wrong on initrd you may still mount rootfs and have > keyboard working. The "Unknown symbol" may mean that something was wrong in > kernel compilation. > > Regards, > -- > *"Do or do not. There is no try"* > *Yoda Master* also the module for the filesystem you use in root part. Matias