Updated Debian kernels

[Buddy Brannan]

Howdy,

I tried to install the new kernel, but I'm having issues. I suspect  
that they're not related to this kernel (because I had trouble with  
another kernel), but rather, with lilo somehow, or maybe some  
combination of hardware and lilo. Here's what's going on...maybe  
someone has an idea.

My Linux machine died. I came back from vacation and it was very,  
very dead. So I managed to get ahold of another machine, in this case  
a Celeron/800, 512MB of RAM, 8MB of shared video memory, and a 40GB   
hard drive. I installed from the talking Debian disk Shane has on his  
Debian pages and everything went great! Until, that is, I tried to  
update to a new kernel by building a new kernel...also by installing  
the new one from Shane. The machine boots right up to mounting tthe  
root file system, then says:
Kerlen panic, can't load root FS (or something like that, sorry, I  
reinstalled and don't want to break it again). Anyway, it's not  
finding the root file system, which is on /dev/hda2. The drive is  
partitioned with /dev/hda1 (swap, at the end of the hard drive); hda2  
(root, 12GB, at the beginning of the drive); hda3 (the rest of the  
drive, where I'm storing a bunch of junk).

Trouble is, lilo claims that the BIOS and the kernel (?) are  
reporting different cylinder/head counts.

Anyone got any ideas what's broke?

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