On Mar 1, 12:22pm, Sir Edward James William wrote: > I followed the README to the T for the new kernel 2.4.2 > > I compiled, installed, rebooted. my kernel is still 2.1.2. What does "uname -a" show? FWIW, it doesn't sound to me like it was. Did you copy the new kernel to /boot, modify lilo.conf, and rerun lilo? Kevin