Did you copy the System.map? 

> 
> OK, first the setup.  This is a PPro 200 with 128MB Ram.  It has RH6.2 installed
> with the 2.2.16-3 kernel (precompiled rpm binary).  I downloaded the tar.gz of
> 2.2.17, uncompressed it to /usr/src/linux-2.2.17.  configured it, compiled it
> (no errors), moved the bzImage to /boot and edited /etc/lilo.conf to default to
> the new kernel, run lilo and reboot.  Upon rebooting I get a kernel panic and a
> message that says to try to set init to something.
> 
> At this point i try to reboot and at 'lilo:' type 'linux init=3'.  Again kernel
> panics.  I can get back into the system thanks to the previous kernel. 
> Unfortunately the box is at school so I don't have the exact message.  I'm
> stumped as to what to do.  I looked in a couple of the books I have, but of
> course they don't mention much about kernel panics.  Any suggestions?
> 
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