You probably forgot to enable IDE support under block devices when you configured the kernel. It has to be compiled directly into the kernel (not a module) if the root file system is on an IDE disk.
Tom Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:42. > This is happenning after compiling a new kernel. I can still access the > system through an old kernel. > Any ideas to solve it? > Thanx >