problem booting compiled kernel

Tue Jul 20 11:38:38 UTC 2004

Hi there,
i compiled a 2.5.7 kernel and am trying to boot it.
I have fedora 2 with /dev/hda2 as root partition (just mentioning in case if 
this helps)

I compiled the kernel and installed it with initrd images and grub entries.
It is giving an error message:

"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00"

I have read most of the mailing lists given by google.
But I am not able to solve the problem.
When fedora 2 is able to mount the /dev/hda2 partition, why not a 2.5.7 
kernel?
I have compiled the kernel with all necessary options set.
please help me out.

Thanks.

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B.Nagaprabhanjan.
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