The problem with the installation of the latest kernel

The problem with the installation of the latest kernel

[david]

Hi, guys:
???? I am totally a beginner to Linux kernel and feel sorry to bother you with such an easy question.? I encountered a problem which is failed to making the latest kernel 2.6.39.1 downloaded from kernel.org bootable under the environment of Ubuntu 10.10. Although I have tried to solve this problem for almost 3 days, I don't have any clue on the cause of not able to boot the newly-installed kernel. The procedure that I adopted to configure, build and install the kernel is shown bellow
???? 1. I downloaded the tarball "linux-2.6.39.1.tar.bz2" and stored it in the directory "/home/lenovo/linux", then uncompressed it, a new folder 

???????? "linux-2.6.39.1" was created.
???? 2. I created a folder called "linux-2.6.39.1-install" in the same directory to store the compiled files from folder "linux-2.6.39.1".
???? 3. I opened the terminal and typed in:

cd ~/linux/linux-2.6.39.1
make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install defconfig
make -j4 O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install
???? The result of these operations is:
???? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? GZIP??? arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.gz
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? MKPIGGY arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S
???????????????????????? AS????? arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.o
???????????????????????? LD????? arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
???????????????????????? ZOFFSET arch/x86/boot/zoffset.h
???????????????????????? OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/vmlinux.bin
???????????????????????? AS????? arch/x86/boot/header.o
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? LD????? arch/x86/boot/setup.elf
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/setup.bin
???????????????????????? BUILD?? arch/x86/boot/bzImage
?????????????????????? Root device is (7, 0)
?????????????????????? Setup is 13148 bytes (padded to 13312 bytes)
?????????????????????? System is 4091 kB
?????????????????????? CRC 887907a3
?????????????????????? Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready? (#1)
???? 4. I typed in the command:
make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install modules_install
??? The result is:
?????????????????????? INSTALL arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.ko
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
?????????????????????? INSTALL drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.ko
?????????????????????? INSTALL net/netfilter/xt_mark.ko
?????????????????????? DEPMOD? 2.6.39.1
???? 5.???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ? ?? sudo make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install install
???? The result is:
?????????????????????? sh /home/lenovo/linux/linux-2.6.39.1/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 2.6.39.1 arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
??? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? System.map "/boot"
???? 6.???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? sudo update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.39.1
???? The result is:
?????????????????????? update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39.1
?????????????????????? Warning: No support for locale: en_US.utf8
???? 7.??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????sudo update-grub
???? The result is:
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? ? Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39.1
?????????????????????? Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39.1

Finally, after I rebooted the system and selected "Linux-2.6.39.1" in the grup, a problem arose along with a message showed up saying:
????? 

???? mount: mounting none on /dev failed: No such device.
???? w: devtmpfs not available, falling back to tmpfs for /dev
???? fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe' fuse first.
???? ......
???? Could not mount the partition /dev/sda8.
???? ......
???? (file system = ntfs, error code = 21)

best regards
david.G
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The problem with the installation of the latest kernel

[Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:45 AM, david <gwj35@yahoo.cn> wrote:

> Hi, guys:
>      I am totally a beginner to Linux kernel and feel sorry to bother you
> with such an easy question.  I encountered a problem which is failed to
> making the latest kernel 2.6.39.1 downloaded from kernel.org bootableunder the environment of
> Ubuntu 10.10. Although I have tried to solve this problem for almost 3
> days, I don't have any clue on the cause of not able to boot the
> newly-installed kernel. The procedure that I adopted to configure, build and
> install the kernel is shown bellow
>      1. I downloaded the tarball "linux-2.6.39.1.tar.bz2" and stored it in
> the directory "/home/lenovo/linux", then uncompressed it, a new folder
>          "linux-2.6.39.1" was created.
>      2. I created a folder called "linux-2.6.39.1-install" in the same
> directory to store the compiled files from folder "linux-2.6.39.1".
>      3. I opened the terminal and typed in:
> cd ~/linux/linux-2.6.39.1
> make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install defconfig
> make -j4 O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install
>      The result of these operations is:
>                          GZIP    arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.gz
>                          MKPIGGY arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S
>                          AS      arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.o
>                          LD      arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
>                          ZOFFSET arch/x86/boot/zoffset.h
>                          OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/vmlinux.bin
>                          AS      arch/x86/boot/header.o
>                          LD      arch/x86/boot/setup.elf
>                          OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/setup.bin
>                          BUILD   arch/x86/boot/bzImage
>                        Root device is (7, 0)
>                        Setup is 13148 bytes (padded to 13312 bytes)
>                        System is 4091 kB
>                        CRC 887907a3
>                        Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#1)
>      4. I typed in the command:
> make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install modules_install
>     The result is:
>                        INSTALL arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.ko
>                        INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
>                        INSTALL drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.ko
>                        INSTALL net/netfilter/xt_mark.ko
>                        DEPMOD  2.6.39.1
>
> 5.
>    sudo make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install install
>      The result is:
>                        sh
> /home/lenovo/linux/linux-2.6.39.1/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 2.6.39.1
> arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
>                                                  System.map "/boot"
>      6.
> sudo update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.39.1
>      The result is:
>                        update-initramfs: Generating
> /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39.1
>                        Warning: No support for locale: en_US.utf8
>
> 7.                                                                                              sudo update-grub
>      The result is:
>                        Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39.1
>                        Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39.1
> Finally, after I rebooted the system and selected "Linux-2.6.39.1" in the
> grup, a problem arose along with a message showed up saying:
>
>      mount: mounting none on /dev failed: No such device.
>      w: devtmpfs not available, falling back to tmpfs for /dev
>      fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe' fuse first.
>      ......
>      Could not mount the partition /dev/sda8.
>      ......
>      (file system = ntfs, error code = 21)
>
> Can you dump your grub.conf or menu.list(not sure if ubuntu uses grub.conf)


> best regards
> david.G
>
>
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The problem with the installation of the latest kernel

[Prashant Shah]

Hi,

>> make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install defconfig

Try using $make oldconfig instead of defconfig. This will reuse your
current ubuntu kernel config file.

Re: 回复： The problem with the installation of the latest kernel

[Prashant Shah]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:10 PM, david <gwj35@yahoo.cn> wrote:
> HI:
>    I have tried this command, but it asked me a lot of other new config
> symbols which I don't know whether to include, exclude or make them modules
> to the kernel.

Just hit enter - it will take the default value.

The problem with the installation of the latest kernel

[Jonathan Neuschäfer]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:27:03PM +0530, Prashant Shah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >> make O=../linux-2.6.39.1-install defconfig
> 
> Try using $make oldconfig instead of defconfig. This will reuse your
> current ubuntu kernel config file.

If I read the code correctly, make oldconfig will not use the config
from /boot/, but just but just use a default configuration in case
you don't have a .config in your build directory.

So from my (limited) experience you would first need to do a
	cp /boot/config*`uname -r` ~/linux-2.6.39.1-install/.config

Another option is make localmodconfig, which includes all the modules
that are loaded into the new configuration.

HTH,
	Jonathan Neusch?fer