Jerry Geis wrote: 
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Jerry Geis wrote:

> I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT 
> machine, I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - 
> ext3, 3 is swap. on booting it says:
>
> VFS cannot open root device NULL please append root=
>
> I tried root=/dev/sda2 and still nothing.

Does your custom kernel (or its initrd) include the USB storage 
drivers necessary for reading your thumb drive?
Paul,

I started with the config from the old kernel but specifically which ones
do I need to check and verify?

Thanks,

Jerry