I was playing around with debian and started compiling a custom vanilla kernel. Got snagged with the initrd but figured it out. I was doing well until and hit yet another snag before I can get the kernel to boot. *sigh*
I used my .config from the debian kernel as a guide to the vanilla kernel options and didn't change too much. The point of doing this is to get use to the debian way of doing things. It's been awhile since I last compiled a kernel. I also verified that I do have module support. Could someone plz point out what I'm missing? Thx.

EDIT: I also made sure that modules.dep exists.

Figured it out. I dropped support for initrd and compiled in support for my filesystem.