[plug] was (Debian)Thanx to all..now Apologies to all

[Desire'e]

Ive compiled this kernel on 3 versions of linux..it was successfully installed
until i went fiddling looking for modules that wernt there....

It was a fresh tarball not touched byt the other 2 versions of Linux.

The ide driver is not compiled as a module...nothing is compiled as a module
excepting  various iomega support files.

I have recompiled twice since this has happened..very caefully..and very slowly 
but the same thing happens...so Im sure the problem is not in the kernel
And like I said before I have reinstalled lilo .

I'm a bit confused by these lines below
Im not too sure what it is you are asking or saying  ( BTW there is no .config
attached to your message)

>>I need to confirm if it's correct or not. Since root cannot be mounted,
>>how can any files on the partition influence this?

> >Im out of ideas where else should I look?????
>>.config attached to this message.

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>>The debian rescue disk has msdos FS compiled into the kernel since the
>>disk itself is msdos FS. were you typing mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt?

no i typed
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy

and yes../floppy exists.
( and i tried /mnt)
but i know that would make no difference where i mount the thing...
and like i said i even put in a ext2 and typed the relevent mount -t command....
any floppy..any filesystem it didnt matter ( and YES the command was correct).

it would seem i will have to reinstall.
i looked at the partition table and that appeared to be ok.

Dez