Comments on: Kernel 3.16 Released – Compile and Install on Debian GNU/Linux

By: Dhanda

Dhanda — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 13:00:25 +0000

Hi geeks,
Please save my day. I have followed and installed the same steps. When booting with new updated kernel getting below error

Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
— Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
— Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
— Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
— Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/aa91b9fe-1e27-44d7-9c1b-72dd7d4e8575 does not exist.
Dropping to a shell!

BusyBox v.1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash)
Enter ‘help’ for list of built-in commands.

(initramfs)

Please Help me on this.!!!!!!

By: Alon Or

Alon Or — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:39:27 +0000

Why just not do a dist-upgrade?, it’s so simple:
just answer Y every time.
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
nano /etc/apt/sources.list replace every lenny with squeeze , ctrl+x, Y,enter.
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot
But why stay there?, now you can go to Debian 7 (wheezy) then to Debian 8.2 (jessie) by following the same instructions , just replace the name of the distro on your sourcelist.
I wasn’t able to go directly from 6 to 8.
If you have trouble with “public key is not available” then follow instructions from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1139127/how-to-trust-a-apt-repository-debian-apt-get-update-error-public-key-is-not-av
Enjoy.

By: MLSPRWR

MLSPRWR — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 03:23:38 +0000

Thanks Buddy! I just tried the 3rd time to compile my kernel with no success.. Best Guide I found on this topic..

By: Avishek Kumar

Avishek Kumar — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:32:27 +0000

In reply to Aren.

Agreed @ Indiak and@ Aren

By: Avishek Kumar

Avishek Kumar — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:31:08 +0000

In reply to CyrIng.

Agree @ Crying
This tutorial is in general and carried out on debian.
Thanks for your feedback