new kernel will not boot

[Keith Antoine]

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:23, Net Llama Hear Ye Oh! Hear Ye GANDALF spake thus:
> My guess is perhaps that you're lacking support for something critical.
> If you've got SCSI hardware, did you build the initrd correctly, or
> compile the neccesary support into the kernel?  If / is on an IDE drive,
> did you compile IDE support into the kernel?  Did you compile support
> for whatever filesystem / uses (ext2/3, Reiser, XFS)?

Thanks for the reply Lonni,
I have IDE drives and the cd's are compiled in as scsi hd's as ide, initrd was 
called from /boot /usr/libexec/modules/mkinitrd.sh 2.4.18................
am using ext3......................