Compiling, Installing and Running new kernel.

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Sun Feb 8 12:48:07 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 18:02 +0530, Himanshu Chauhan wrote:
> I compiled the linux kernel with fakeroot make-kpkg commands. It
> compiled and installed fine. But when I tried booting from this new
> kernel, it waits for long time for root filesystem to come up but then
> fails and breaks in busybox shell of initramfs.

You probably did not configure initramfs correctly for the new kernel.
Did you follow the community instructions at [1]? 
If you did, then it *should* work fine.

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile

> I don't
> know how UUID thing works. 

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingUUID








More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list