I recently installed Debian (Sid) on a laptop and compiled kernel 2.6.14 from kernel.org. The kernel would not recognize my partition scheme (created with the debian installer). It took me a while until I found someone else in a forum who had solved the same problem by not compiling into the kernel the "Advance partition Selection" option. In his case, he was dealing with a 2.6.4 kernel.
The problem showed as : hda: unknown partition table followed by the infamous VFS cannot mount root I'm just putting this here in case anyone runs into a similar problem. martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]