[ale] kernel 2.6.10 problem

[zeb]

Barry wasn't fooling.  He didn't have a problem.  I did.  At the ALE 
central meeting, he mentioned he had 2.6.10 working.  After the 
formal meeting was over, I asked him how he did it.  He was gracious 
enough to look it up and post to the list.

I have an old "white box" machine, an Asus P2B with an early Pentium 
III at 400 MHz, 512 MB of system RAM and some other stuff.

I installed Slack 10 with kernel 2.4.26 on hda1 and it worked nicely.

I tried to install Slack 10 with kernel 2.6.10 on hda1 (the same 
partition).  I couldn't get the kernel to compile.  Tried several 
different config files with no luck.  I reinstalled Slack 10 from 
scratch, reformatting the drive.  Then I recompiled the 2.6.10 
kernal, and it went well.  I put the new bzImage and System.map in 
the boot partition and changed lilo to reflect both kernels.  

2.24.26 would boot and run just fine.

2.6.10 would crash giving me the message: "kernel panic: can't mount 
root on (somewhere).

This problem was solved by linking "System.map-2.6.10" to 
"System.map".

2.4.26 still boots, using "bzImage-2.4.26" and "System.map-2.4.26"

2.6.10 wouldn't boot using "bzImage-2.6.10" and "System.map-2.6.10".

2.6.10 will boot using "bzImage -> bzImage-2.6.10" and "System.map -> 
System.map-2.6.10".  Interesting.....

Thanks Barry for the effort.
  
For what it's worth.....(and if it's any help)

Regards to all....Zeb

P.S.   Enjoyed James McKinney's talk last night.  Well done!