On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:45 AM, ashish raste <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Srivatsa, > > On 8/20/11, Srivatsa Bhat <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ashish, > > > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:48 PM, ashish raste <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Recently I compiled and tried installing kernel (2.6.39.3), which I > >> downloaded from kernel.org > >> All the activity that I did was to copy the .config file of my distro > >> (Ubuntu 10.10), then the following commands : > >> > >> - make menuconfig ( I exited, keeping the default configuration ) > >> > > > > You can execute 'make localmodconfig' after this, to ensure that you have > > all the necessary > > components enabled in the .config file. It also strips off all the > > unnecessary ones, which will speed up > > your compilation. > > I didn't do a 'make localmodconfig' after this. > > > > > Did you forget to run 'make' after this stage? > > > > - make modules > >> - make install_modules > >> > > Yes, I ran make and make install_modules after this stage. Forgot > writing it in my previous mail. > > > > > I run 'make modules_install' here... > > > > - make install > >> - update grub > >> > >> All of the above commands got executed without any errors, and the new > >> kernel version was also shown in the grub menu. But it showed some > >> errors and didn't login. > >> > >> When I tried logging to my Ubuntu distro, a blue login box(which is > >> normally violet in color) appeared. After giving password, it came > >> back again to the same screen without going inside. > >> > >> Only thing I was able to do was to dropping in root mode (from > >> Ubuntu's recovery mode u\in the grub menu) and looking at all of my > >> data through terminal without a GUI. > >> > >> Do you see a prompt like this ?: > > grub> > > I didn't see a prompt of grub> Instead the following errors were > listed on the black screen : > > [ 2.4331....] Error: Driver 'mdio-gpio' is already registered. aborting... > [ 2.8364... ] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root > fs on unknown-block(0,0) > [ ......... ] Pid: 1. comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.39.3 #1 > [ ...... ] Call Trace: > > and list of errors in this trace. > > Hi Ashish, I am not sure if this will help but you can try burning a system rescue CD and using it to fix the issue. I believe you will be able to get back atleast your original Ubuntu with full GUI.. Here is the link: http://www.sysresccd.org/Download Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat
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