For anyone intending on playing with their own 2.6 kernel source ... it won't boot by default from an IDE disk.
If your boot drive is an IDE disk, double-check and confirm that you have selected CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK - it wasn't enabled by default in a 2.6-test11 I downloaded from kernel.org yesterday, and google suggests that this has been true of earlier versions. (You'll also probably need CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y or some specific device driver ... ) It's not a big gotcha in the scheme of things, but it's big enough to halt your machine during the boot process :-) I'm sure that distribution-mediated kernel sources will have this enabled ... -jim
