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Hi

on boot, I am getting the error message below after doing the steps
underneath it.
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VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb1" on unknown-block (0,0)
please append a correct "root=" boot option
kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block (0,0)
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$ sudo apt-get install linux-source-2.6.16
$ cd /usr/src
$ rm linux
$ tar -jxf linux-source-2.6.16.tar.bz2
$ ln -s linux-source-2.6.16 linux
$ cd linux
$ cp /boot/config-2.6.15-1-686 .config
$ make oldconfig
(accept all the defaults)
$ fakeroot make-kpkg clean
$ fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-versionfiltered=.060919 kernel_image
# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.16.060919_10.00.Custom_i386.deb


here is my /boot/grup/menu.list
default         0
timeout         5
color cyan/blue white/blue
title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.16.1
root            (hd1,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.1 root=/dev/hdb1 ro
savedefault
title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.16.1 (recovery mode)
root            (hd1,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.1 root=/dev/hdb1 ro single
savedefault
title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15-1-686
root            (hd1,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686 root=/dev/hdb1 ro
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-686
savedefault
title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15-1-686 (recovery mode)
root            (hd1,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686 root=/dev/hdb1 ro single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-686
savedefault
title           Other operating systems:
root
title           Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
root            (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader     +1


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