no, but I will try that on Friday when I'm back at work. Guess I should find a way to use multiple maps seeing as how I want to keep a kernel around from the default install. > 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?