That is supposed to happen in the "make install". In fact I looked at /boot and it is there. Jerry On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:05:36AM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: >/ I am attempting to recompile the kernel with the following steps. />/ />/ Install kernel-sourcecode rpm />/ />/ cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-11.EL />/ cp /boot/config-2.6.9-11.EL .config />/ make menuconfig />/ Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Serial Drivers />/ change Max number of non legacy 8250_NR_UARTS to 36 />/ make bzImage />/ make modules_install />/ make install / you forgot to rebuild the ramdisk ? mkinitrd ... Tru --