Master Kernel Thread

[gbesso]

I'm also getting the "Begin: Waiting for root file system... ..." message and the system just hangs. If I hit ctr+alt+del it reboots and I can repeat over and over, nothing. If I choose my old kernel from grub it boots just fine so I don't think there is anything wrong with the file system.

Help?

Same here

[Jivicin]

I was also having the "Begin: Waiting for root file system..." bug. This was due to the fact that I'm booting from a SATA drive, and none of the SATA drivers were baked into the kernel. I recompiled the kernel with the SATA drivers baked in and it booted fine.

The next problem I'm having is not being able to mount local hard drives after I'm booted up. I have an IDE drive I use for storage that ubuntu can't see. This used to be solved by patching the kernel with the evms patch shown here (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...&page=1&pp=10), but this method no longer works. Any solutions?

[gbesso]

Hmm that makes sense, I'm also running from a SATA drive, I'll give it a try.

[kurty]

what do you mean by "baked in"?

[Jivicin]

By baked in, I meant compiled into the kernel. When you do a sudo make xconfig you need to enable the SATA drivers. They're not selected by default.

[seelk]

@lime4x4:
The file it's trying to include is /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.19/include/linux/config.h
however, this file does not exist, at least in the versions I've been able to build. This file exists in my linux-headers-2.6.18 directory that I have from the last time I built my own kernel (using the previous guide), but not in the new (2.6.19) version.
Seems like something is broken (or fragile) when building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu machines. Makes me wish I still had my Fedora Core 6 partition to try building a kernel on.

There is no problem with building kernels under Ubuntu. The issue here is that config.h no longer exists in the 2.6.19 kernel. Read this thread to get more info...

[oxygen]

Great guide. After a few attempts I managed to get a new 2.6.19 kernel going. Maybe you could add the following info for others who were in my same situation.

Change

sudo apt-get install build-essential bin86 kernel-package libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev wget && cd /usr/src

to

sudo apt-get install build-essential bin86 kernel-package libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev wget libncurses5 libncurses5-dev && cd /usr/src

This way if people have just done a server install they can use menuconfig instead of xconfig.

For people running a server install with console only

sudo cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config && sudo make oldconfig && sudo make menuconfig

Also can someone point me in the right direction for compiling the nvidia kernel sources as well? I read somewhere that you need to do this because restricted modules aren't allowed when you compile your own kernel.

Thanks!

[Choxo]

When I enter

spitz@desktop:/usr/src/linux$ sudo cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config && sudo make oldconfig && sudo make xconfig

I got this error ( after holding enter for a while) :

* Library routines
*
CRC-CCITT functions (CRC_CCITT) [M/y/?] m
CRC16 functions (CRC16) [M/y/?] m
CRC32 functions (CRC32) [Y/?] y
CRC32c (Castagnoli, et al) Cyclic Redundancy-Check (LIBCRC32C) [M/y/?] m
#
# configuration written to .config
#

scripts/kconfig/qconf arch/i386/Kconfig
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
  Major opcode:  148
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
  Major opcode:  148
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device

I ignored this error & continued compilation... Everything seemed to be go fine, but when restartign & booting the new kernel I got this error:

/dev/sda1/ does not exist Dropping to shell
/bin/sh: can't axxes tty Job control turned off

What did I wrong?

[hanzomon4]

I keep getting this error for fuse

/usr/bin/make -C kfusd KDIR=/usr/src/linux
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd'
echo EXTRA_CFLAGS=-I/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/../include
EXTRA_CFLAGS=-I/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/../include
/usr/bin/make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd EXTRA_CFLAGS=-I/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/../include modules
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19'
  CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.o
/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.c:60:26: error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.c:70:35: error: linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h: No such file or directory
/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.c:181: error: expected ‘)’ before string constant
/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.c: In function ‘fusd_register_device’:
/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.c:2036: warning: label ‘register_failed2’ defined but not used
/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.c: At top level:
/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.c:2517: error: unknown field ‘writev’ specified in initializer
/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.c:2517: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.c: In function ‘init_fusd’:
/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.c:2941: warning: label ‘fail2’ defined but not used
/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.c:2929: warning: label ‘fail7’ defined but not used
/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.c: In function ‘cleanup_fusd’:
/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.c:2960: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘devfs_remove’
make[5]: *** [/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd/kfusd.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19'
make[3]: *** [default] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor/kfusd'
make[2]: *** [binary-modules] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor'
make[1]: *** [kdist_build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/fusd-kor'
Module /usr/src/modules/fusd-kor failed.
Hit return to Continue

[ostvarivanje]

What is better for me to use here:
make-kpkg -initrd --revision=386 kernel_image kernel_headers modules_image

386, 686 or k7?
I have amd 3800+ X2 and Edgy 64bit

This is my second attemp to compile the 2.6.19 kernel and the first time I put k7. In entry of grub don't have 2.6.19.k7 (or 2.6.19-k7, I don't know how it should be), but I have only 2.6.19
Have to be only this?