My ThinkPad R60 is now powered by a newer faster kernel (2.6.19.1)

Its been weeks since I upgraded my laptop with the latest kernel. So, got some time today to pull the latest stable 2.6.19.1 release and compile.

OK, I’ll outline the procedure of my upgrade (apart from downloading and unpacking the kernel sources):

  • cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config
  • make silentoldconfig
  • make menuconfig
  • make clean
  • make bzImage
  • make modules
  • sudo make modules_install
  • sudo mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.19.1 2.6.19.1
  • sudo cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.19.1
  • sudo cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.19.1

Ah, at last everything is over, I rebooted the machine only to find the system was hanging with a message “Begin: Waiting for root file system”.

Silly me, I forgot to select SATA from Device Drivers > Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers. I enabled ATA device support, AHCI SATA support, and Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support and followed the above steps and lo! the system booted :)

I had selected the architecture as Pentium M, CFQ scheduler, and a whole bunch of optimisation options and removal of unwanted modules. The system is faster than before.

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