new kernel will not boot

[Net Llama]

My guess is perhaps that you're lacking support for something critical. 
If you've got SCSI hardware, did you build the initrd correctly, or
compile the neccesary support into the kernel?  If / is on an IDE drive,
did you compile IDE support into the kernel?  Did you compile support
for whatever filesystem / uses (ext2/3, Reiser, XFS)?

--- Keith Antoine <kantoine at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> I have a 2.4.18 compiled kernel that has a kernel panic and stops
> dead.
> It is complaining that the root= is incorrect and that hdc7 is not
> root.
> However the 2.4.17 does boot normally and I cannot see any reason why
> 2.4.18 
> complains.
> 
> I am using grub and have for a long time here is the menu.lst
> #
> # /boot/grub/menu.lst - generated by Lizard
> #
> 
> 
> # options
> 
> timeout = 5
> # splashscreen = (hd0,7)/boot/message.col31
> 
> default = 1
> 
> title  = Linux-2.4.13
> root   = (hd0,7)
> kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.13-modular vga=normal root=/dev/hdc7
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.13.gz
> 
> title  = Linux-2.4.17
> root   = (hd0,7)
> kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17 vga=normal hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi 
> root=/dev/hdc7
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.17.gz
> 
> title  = Linux-2.4.18
> root   = (hd0,7)
> kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-1 vga=normal root=/dev/hdc7
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.18.gz
> 
> title = Windows
> chainloader = (hd0,0)+1

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