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Boot fail: Loading initial ramdisk... Error: Out of memory

Asked by Mengyao Xie

Hi all,

I want to upgrade the system's kernel version to 4.20.

After compiling the Kernel 4.20, I update-grub and reboot. However, boot failed, it says: "Loading initial ramdisk... Error: Out of memory".

I can successfully boot the system by using the old kernel version.

So, how to fix this problem?

SYSTEM INFORMATION:
Linux ubuntu-PowerEdge-R440 4.18.0-15-generic #16~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 7 14:06:04 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Chris Guiver (guiverc) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We understand the difficulties you are facing, but it is better to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

Which Ubuntu release are you running?
How much memory does the system have?
Why do you want to upgrade to an unsupported version of the kernel?
If you want to upgrade to a newer version of the kernel, why not version 5.0.0 (e.g. from the Linux-hwe packages, no compilation needed)?

What is the output of the following commands:

lsb_release -crid
free -m

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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