Booting kernel 2.6test9 on redhat 9

From: Frank Pittel (fwp_at_warlock.deepthought.com)
Date: 11/19/03 

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:21:08 -0600

Not to long ago I installed redhat 9 on one of my machines. It was a plain
jane install in which I had it install everything. I have since bought a device
that is only supported with a 2.6 kernel. I went to kernel.org and downloaded
2.6-test9 and while it compiled all right it can't get the machine to boot.

It gets to the point of mounting the root filesystem and then I get a kernel
panic. The exact error is "kernel panic: FS: unable to mount root fs on
uknown-block(0,0).

The root filesystem is ext3 and I've compiled in both ext2 and ext3. The drive
is attached to a promise udma controller and shows up as drive hde. Anyone have
any ideas?? 

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