I don't know why you might have had the troubles you mentioned Jacob. I have two rethat systems myself and have never had any trouble with custom kernels. I don't use make install to place them either. After doing a make BzImage, I copy the new kernel to my /boot dir and update lilo.conf manually. Personally I don't use the "standard" nameing scheme. Partly because this only works if you have one kernel. I have played arround and when doing stuff may try fiv or six different kernels all with slightly different options in them. Instead, I use a date scheme. My experiance has been that the kernel can be named anything. It can sit anyplce on the disk that can be reached using the bios access to the disk. -- Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net ------------------ Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead
