So, I'm attempting to compile and use the 3.6.2 kernel on my Debian 6 VM (running under Windows 7 in VMware Workstation 9). I've already had several hick ups, but I am slowly getting through them but still not there, yet.
So, I'm running the following (after extracting the file into /usr/src
and running the commands via su
)
make defconfig
make -j8
make install
make modules_install
update-initramfs -c -k 3.6.2
update-grub
I forgot to do the initramfs
step, which I found from this link here but I still got the error, which resulted in me finding this link. After this, this part of the error below stopped occurring, but the rest was there:
W: devtmpfs not available, falling back to tmpfs for /dev
Upon the GRUB menu, I edited the root UUID to /dev/sda1
but it still doesn't find it. I finally followed this link, but still no luck. Any ideas?
make oldconfig
instead, you might be missing the fs driver for your root volumemake localmodconfig
and got that working, so I knew it must've been something I missed. I noticed a few options that were selected in that config that weren't in the default config, so it was a matter of time till I got it to work, luckily coming across the site that I linked helped reduce the time dramatically.