On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:50 AM, sandeep kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/19/10, Nilesh Govindarajan <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Then copy arch/<arch>/boot/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-custom >>>> Add entry in grub.cfg > i tried these things on ubuntu 9.10(schoolos) > copied linux-2.6.33.2 to /home/sandeep/linux folder > cd to linux-2.6.33.2 > make defconfig > make > sudo make modules_install > sudo make install > > in the /boot it made system.map vmlinuz and config files for 2.6.33.2 > but there is no initrd.img for the compiled kernel > edited grub.cfg to include custom kernel entry and made use of initrd > of distribution kernel > > finally after reboot i can see custom entry and when i entered it told > that it cant load modules.dep > and ALERT UUID does not exist > it took me to built in shell ash every line beginning with > (initramfs) > issued reboot and came out to the distribution kernel > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm >
Try creating a custom initrd with the relevant command- mkinitrd (on rh), mkinitcpio (on arch). I don't know what's the command to create initrd in ubuntu. Also check the UUID (as suggested by sharad). -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
