Re: [Outreachy kernel] Need help with compiling kernel

[Mo Jauhar <siddmohamed19@gmail.com>]

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Hi,

I am having the same issue. Can you help me out on this, Ankita? I am 
having troubles joining the IRC rn.

Thanks in adv.

Regards,
- Ali

On Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 3:33:23 PM UTC+5:30 Vaishali Thakkar 
wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 10:41 AM Ankita Pareek
> <ankitapa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone!
> > I'm Ankita Pareek from India. I'm applying for Outreachy this year and I 
> would love to contribute to Linux Kernel.
> > I'm a newbie and thus started off with compiling my own kernel following 
> this tutorial --> 
> https://kernelnewbies.org/OutreachyfirstpatchSetup?action=show&redirect=OPWfirstpatchSetup
> > I'm able to successfully build and install the kernel on my native 
> Ubuntu 20.04 and it also gets updated in the grub boot menu. But when I try 
> to boot into that newly compiled kernel it gets stuck at "Loading initial 
> ramdisk ..." and I'm not able to boot into it. Here are some things that I 
> tried to fix this problems -
> >
> > I waited for almost 2-3 hours after that to boot into the new kernel but 
> it still showed the same message.
> > Then I tried changing the 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX' parameter to 'debug' for 
> checking the log messages but couldn't find any logs.
> > Some answers on Google about this said that it was possibly because 
> Secure boot was enabled so I tried compiling and booting by disabling 
> Secure boot but still same problem exists.
> > Then I tried compiling the kernel on a VM and it was successful and I 
> could boot into it. But the VM makes the system very slow and thus I wish 
> to compile and run the kernel on my native Linux machine.
> >
> > What could be the possible reason and fix for this problem? Can someone 
> please help me with this? I've been stuck on this for almost a week now so 
> any help would be really great!
>
> Hi Ankita,
>
> It's strange that you have been able to boot itto same kernel[I assume] in 
> VM
> but not on your machine. Probably something went wrong while installing
> the modules on your machine. Which rc version did you try to install?
>
> I'm free for few hours right now. If you can come on IRC, we can try to
> debug the problem. I'm 'vaishali' on both freenode and OFTC. Just ping
> me there.
>
> > Thanks
> >
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>
> -- 
> Vaishali
>

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