Hi all

I just installed a basic etch 4.0r3 and got it updated.

Then got the kernel 2.4.19 and compiled it the old-way:
- make oldconfig
- make menuconfig and changed ext3 from m to y (my root is ext3)
- make
- cp arch/..../bzImage /boot/vmlinux-xxxx
- add a stanza to /boot/grub/menu.lst
- grub-install /dev/hda (yes, an old 10 GB HD)

The new kernel starts booting an halts at "Waiting for root
device".

Web-search says either problem of switching to udev or broken
Grub. It can't be the former, because that transition was already
done in etch. Then I "repaired" Grub menu.lst /dev/hda2 should
be /dev/sda2 and in fstab too hda should be sda.

Still the problem persists, booting stops "Waiting for root
device"..

I can boot into the former (original etch) Kernels, runlevel
2 or single-user. The new fstab with sda doesn't seem to hurt.
But I can't make the transistion to 2.6.19 (and ultimately
2.6.24.

I'm used to manual compilation, it should work here too.

What am I doing wrong?

Arun