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 defconfigmake -j8make installmake modules_installupdate-initramfs -c -k 3.6.2update-grubI forgot to do the initramfs step, which I found from this link here but I still got the error, which resulted in me finding this link. After this, this part of the error below stopped occurring, but the rest was there:W: devtmpfs not available, falling back to tmpfs for /dev Upon the GRUB menu, I edited the root UUID to /dev/sda1 but it still doesn't find it. I finally followed this link, but still no luck. Any ideas?  
Unable to mount root fs after new kernel compile in VMware
linux;debian;kernel;compiling;linux kernel
Alrighty then, I found the solution! Booyakasha! :)After running lspci I did a google search for LSI Logic kernel compile (or something to that affect) and came across this site. Since it applied to an older kernel version (I assume as it looks different to the settings I have available) I applied the following and got it all working :)So, assuming you've done as I did and started off with running make defconfig run make menuconfig and go into Device Drivers. Once in there, enable Fusion MPT device support and go in there and enable all the modules (Though I don't think you need all of them. I did for now but will tinker and update my answer accordingly after I have done so). After enabling those modules, save and exit. Modify the make -j8 part as required. If you're using anything other than GRUB2 the last part will probably be different but hopefully this is generic enough for anyone to use, regardless of distro. So the entire process again, after extracting the kernel to /usr/src is:make defconfigmake menuconfigmake -j8make installmake modules_installupdate-initramfs -c -k 3.6.2update-grubLastly, you'll need to reinstall your VMware Tools when you're done, so you might wanna remove them first before the whole process.Cheers guys! :)