Compiling Vanilla 2.4.22 Kernel Help Needed

[PHANI ARAVA <arava.3@osu.edu>]

Hi,

Iam having a big and strange problem

I have Installed Debian Sarge on to the systems of our research lab
I have to implement a patch onto 2.4.22 kernel (vannila) I patched it and compiled the kernel the deb way (Forgot to tell u that i have copied the config file that came with Sarge). I installed the kernel and reboot the system ..

I get this following error

RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: loading 3276 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
Freeing initrd memory: 3276k freed
cramfs: wrong magic
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to miunt root fs on 22:02


Can somebody tell me where exactly iam going wrong
And well iam using lilo for another wierd reason..


Regards

Phani Kumar Arava
Grad Student                                             1560 Worthington Street
Columbus Ohio 43201

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