building and installing a new kernel makes my system unbootable

[Markus Schönhaber]

06.07.2010 16:51, Robert P. J. Day:

> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Markus Schönhaber wrote:

>> Did you enable device mapper support in your kernel's config?
> 
>   i believe so.  as the config file, i grabbed the one for the most
> recent ubuntu kernel (2.6.23-32?), copied it to my kernel source dir
> as .config, then ran "make oldconfig".  and here's the excerpt of the
> .config file that was used for the build:
> 
> CONFIG_MD=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
> CONFIG_MD_AUTODETECT=y
> CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=m
> CONFIG_MD_RAID0=m
> CONFIG_MD_RAID1=m
> CONFIG_MD_RAID10=m
> CONFIG_MD_RAID456=m
> # CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456 is not set
> CONFIG_MD_RAID6_PQ=m
> CONFIG_ASYNC_RAID6_TEST=m
> CONFIG_MD_MULTIPATH=m
> CONFIG_MD_FAULTY=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y
> # CONFIG_DM_DEBUG is not set
> CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=m
> CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=y
> CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=y
> # CONFIG_DM_LOG_USERSPACE is not set
> CONFIG_DM_ZERO=m
> CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH=y
> CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_QL=m
> CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_ST=m
> # CONFIG_DM_DELAY is not set
> CONFIG_DM_UEVENT=y
> 
>   is there anything there that should be "y" instead of "m"?

I don't see anything wrong with that.
I'm out of ideas, sorry.

-- 
Regards
  mks