How To Compile the new 2.6.16 kernel from kernel.org

[xXx 0wn3d xXx]

Oh god. I'm in trouble atm.

I did all what the guide said, but I think I got a serious problem. It was building for hours and then it gave me an error with it could not access a file because it was a read-only filesystem (stamp-error?). I could not start firefox or anything else, nothing worked so I tried reboot in hope it would be fixed, grub loaded, and I chose my kernel (the new wasent listed) It began loading and then at "Checking filesystem" it said it still was a read-only filesystem and I should fix it manually with "mount -n -o remount,rw /" I did that but it dident work. I tried in fail-safe enviroment aswell - no luck?

What happened and how can I save my system, I'm sitting on a horrible Windows system atm. Hoping for some help. Thanks in advance.

What kernel did you compile ? Did it return any errors when it was compiling it ?

[meepy]

The only error was something with ns/some file (or something) that it could not access it because it was read-only.

I compiled the kernel in your first topic, top link incl. the patch. And followed the guide all the way, is there anyway to save my system?

[xXx 0wn3d xXx]

The only error was something with ns/some file (or something) that it could not access it because it was read-only.

I compiled the kernel in your first topic, top link incl. the patch. And followed the guide all the way, is there anyway to save my system?

Did you get any errors while applying the patch ?

[meepy]

No errors during patching.

[xXx 0wn3d xXx]

No errors during patching.

Well, since the error came when compiling the kernel, it doesn't seem to be the kernel that caused the problem. Did you do anything else before compiling the kernel ? Like tweak your filesystem ?

[xXx 0wn3d xXx]

A new kernel is out ! The 2.6.16.7 is now the latest stable kernel.

[Kibbo]

Hi all,

Trying to follow the HowTo, and the patching and compiling both seemed to go smoothly.

I dpkg'ed the file, and it hangs at "Setting up kernel-image (version) ..."

Here is the last few lines in the terminal:

dpkg-deb: building package `kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4' in `../kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4_ck3_i386.deb'.
rm -f -r debian/tmp-image
echo done > stamp-image
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16ck3'

root@ubuntu:/usr/src/linux# cd /usr/src/
root@ubuntu:/usr/src# sudo dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4_ck3_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4.
(Reading database ... 96070 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4 (from kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4_ck3_i386.deb) ...
Setting up kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4 (ck3) ...

[xXx 0wn3d xXx]

Hi all,

Trying to follow the HowTo, and the patching and compiling both seemed to go smoothly.

I dpkg'ed the file, and it hangs at "Setting up kernel-image (version) ..."

Here is the last few lines in the terminal:

dpkg-deb: building package `kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4' in `../kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4_ck3_i386.deb'.
rm -f -r debian/tmp-image
echo done > stamp-image
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16ck3'

root@ubuntu:/usr/src/linux# cd /usr/src/
root@ubuntu:/usr/src# sudo dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4_ck3_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4.
(Reading database ... 96070 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4 (from kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4_ck3_i386.deb) ...
Setting up kernel-image-2.6.16-cks4 (ck3) ...

It takes a while to set up the kernel. On my 2.2 ghz, 512 of ram system it can take as long as 4 minutes. Sometimes longer.

[aktiwers]

Thanks for a great guide! This worked out easy and painless for me
I have been running Linux for about a month now, and never thought I would compile a kernel so fast!

Thanks again!

[Kibbo]

Thanks for the quick reply, Chief.

I've left it running now for 30 mins, on a PIV@2.0 Ghz with a gig of ram. And my system monitor is pretty quiet on both the proccessor and the HD activity.

Barring other suggestions, I think I'm going to cancel the proccess and try to redownload and recompile the kernel. Based on what you see in my previous post, does it seem that i've downloaded the right files?

Thanks for any help and suggestions.

Edit: Is there anything that I should delete or uninstall before I try again?