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From: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
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Subject: Re: kernel panic:I have no root I want to scream
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> make xconfig
>   During the configuration I havn't made any changes to
>    the default configuration.I have just saved the
>    default configuration and exited.

You should have, unless you have exactly the same configuration as Linus
Torvalds has.
Probably drivers for accessing the root filesystem are missing, but you
also need to configure a whole heap of other things as well.

The Kernel Howto at
  http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Kernel-HOWTO/
makes a good reading.