Re: building and installing a new kernel makes my system unbootable
- From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:52:43 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
05.07.2010 20:01, Robert P. J. Day:
$ sudo make modules_install
$ sudo make install
$ sudo update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.35-crash+
$ sudo update-grub
that's worked fine until now, but with this kernel tree, if i do the
above and reboot, i not only can't stop in GRUB, but the boot fails as
the kernel panics, claiming it can't mount a root file system.
i recovered by booting off the CD into rescue mode, mounting
/dev/sda1 (/boot), then literally editing grub/grub.cfg and deleting
the entries for that new kernel. nothing else would allow me to boot.
If GRUB doesn't work with the entries for your self-built kernel but
does without them, it seems that exactly these entries makes GRUB
choke. WAG: Does it get better if you rename your kernel and initrd
files to something that doesn't end with a '+' character?
it's clearly an LVM thing of some kind.
it finally dawned on me that all of those earlier kernels i was
building and running without incident were on my earlier laptop, on
which i had installed ubuntu 10.04 with a single, honking big root
filesystem, as in:
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
and grub never had a problem booting my new kernel. in fact, this is
that old system right now:
$ uname -a
Linux lynx 2.6.35-kwlug+ #1 SMP Mon Jun 7 13:13:50 EDT 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$
on my *new* system, though, well, i decided to get clever during the
installation:
$mount
/dev/mapper/lynx-root on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
... snip ...
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
... snip ...
and, unsurprisingly, the boot-time failure states that the kernel
can't open root device "mapper/lynx-root" so this tells me that,
somehow, i haven't built device mapper support into my initrd or
something like that.
does this look familiar to anyone? what probably trivial step have
i forgotten to do? thanks.
rday
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