From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chambilkethakur@gmail.com (Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:51:59 +0100 Subject: The problem with the installation of the latest kernel In-Reply-To: <472506.38873.qm@web92202.mail.cnh.yahoo.com> References: <472506.38873.qm@web92202.mail.cnh.yahoo.com> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:45 AM, david 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20110617/cdd89646/attachment-0001.html