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