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Unable to mount root fs after new kernel compile

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – So, I'm attempting to compile and use the 3.6.2 kernel on my Debian 6 VM (running under Windows 7 in VMware Workstation 9). I've already had several hick ups, but I am slowly getting through them but still not there, yet. So, I'm running the following (after extracting the file into /usr/src and running the commands via su) make defconfig make -j8 (running a quad core, and it noticably speeds up the compile time) make install make modules_install update-initramfs -c -k 3.6.2 update-grub I forgot to do the initramfs step, which I found from this link here but I still got the error, which re (HowTos)

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