Thanks in advance for your help. I decided to go to kernel 2.4.2 on my testing box. Did a apt-get install to get the source. Got my old config file from /boot and put it in the source and did a make oldconfig. I then did a make xconfig and made sure that I had ext2 support and elf and a.out all compiled in (along with the other options that I wanted) It compiled with no errors except it did complain about not being able to find /usr/src/modules but it went on from there (I assumed that was if I wanted a non standard module and ignored it) In any case I got my .deb (make-kpkg revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image was the command I used to make it) and did a dpkg -i it all ran well with no errors. I ran lilo a couple of times just to be sure. :) And did a reboot. And now I am getting a kernel panic saying can't mount the root device 030:030 and to add a correct root paramater. I have the right root paramater in lilo.conf (root=/dev/hda3) and also tried passing it this by hand at the lilo prompt Linux root=/dev/hda3. I'm still getting the same error message. My old kernel still boots fine. So any ideas on how I managed to break it? Once again thanks very much.
