Re: Compiling, Installing and Running new kernel.

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





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