kernel panic on recompiled kernel

[Eric Persson <eric@persson.tm>]

Hi,

I've been trying to recompile my kernel to a 2.6.8 one on debian sarge. 
But no matter what I do it seems to get kernel panic when I try to boot.
See the message at
http://www.persson.tm/debian_install/debian_boot_2.6.8.gif

hda3 is the debianpartition mounted / with ext3 on it. I found a bunch 
of people with similar problems at http://kerneltrap.org/node/2318 and 
tried a few of the solutions, but none of the seem to work for me.

I have put my config file at
http://www.persson.tm/debian_install/config-2.6.8 for reading, I also 
added a dmesg from the working 2.4.27 kernel at 
http://www.persson.tm/debian_install/dmesg

I also put a list of my fstab and fdisk -l /dev/hda at
http://www.persson.tm/debian_install/debian_fstab.gif

I'm not sure how to go on with this, I really would like to get debian 
running on my laptop. :) And hopefully I can get some help with this, 
dont hesitate to ask for more info. :)
The reason I run it through vmware is that I got sick of all the 
rebooting when trying kernels, so now I can do real work while its 
compiling and booting. I havent noticed some sideeffects of this, but 
its not how I plan to use debian. So the dmesg might look a bit strange, 
but thats vmwarish. :)

Thanks for any input!

Eric