I should apologize in advance for this question, because it may not specifically relate to "blinux" issues, but hey, if I can't build the kernel, well, ... I have the phat distribution (a variant of redhat), and I just unpacked and built the kernel, via "make oldconfig", rather than reconfiguring it myself. I thought this would build exactly the kernel that was shipped. Instead I got a product three times as large. Furthermore it is an elf executable, not a "x86 boot sector". I then ran "make config" and stripped out almost everything, including several features, such as networking, that I KNOW are included in the shipped kernel. Still my product was larger. I even stripped it -- still it was larger. In fact it is "too large" for lilo, so I can't even launch it. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong? Karl mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx