Hi....

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 00:45, Naman shekhar Mishra
[off-list ref] wrote:

My platform is Intel 32 bit.
I am using kernel 2.6.35-22 generic for these steps and the newly compiled
kernel is 2.6.39
Here's my steps:

try to preceed it with "make mrproper" first...just to make sure you
don't inaccidentally use leftover object files from previous
compilation....

$make defconfig
$make -j2 CC="ccache gcc"

try to leave out ccache temporarily....... just to make sure you use
freshly compiled object files.

$make modules
#make modules_install
#make install

I am not 100% whether "make install" implies "make bzImage".
Personally, I suggest this order:
make bzImage
(check whether you indeed see arch/x86/boot/bzImage....)
make modules && make modules_install
make install

#update-grub
After these sequence of steps, I tried to boot into the new kernel and there
was nothing (except for the blinking caps lock) .

Simply blank? no previous message? even grub's kernel selection screen?

So I checked and there was
no initrd.img in /boot.

that may or may not be the source of the problem.....

So I tried using mkinitranfs and it created the
ramdisk and then I booted but still it won't work.
Though I can boot into recovery mode but the shell prompt is strange like
(initramfs)...

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