ok thanks i will be back in a min wit more questions undoubtedly.

no, su is stands for: super user

su means u intend to login as root

if you don't mind, would you please start a new thread? because these are not kernel compile relate questions

ok first recompile done. The only problem i have is that it looks like none of my modules are loading. When I did make modules_install, it went through all of the modules and with each one said there was nothing to be done.
Any ideas?

login as root, type: lsmod
what does it says?

it shows a list header:
Module Size etc.
Not a single module is listed.

did u enable module support and kernel support while doing make xconfig?

I did make config.
Didnt think it would matter which one of the configs i did. Which is best?
make config
make menuconfig
make xconfig

they are all the same, just diff interface

Well in that case, yes I am pretty sure i did. If not, is there anyway I can change it without doing a complete kernel rebuild?

will have to do the whole thing all over again

thats what i figured... in that case, should i go ahead and go to 2.6, because i am running 2.4.25

there's diff between 2.6 and 2.4
you may wanna see if u need those new features from 2.6

here's the summary of the site:

http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html

Hey, I am frustrated! I followed this guide completely, then got to the point where I need to use mkinitrd. My slack 9.1 does not have a mkinitrd. Anyway, I skipped this step, as there was no old initrd file, I didn't think there would be issues. Anyway, I finished installing kernel 2.6.3 and accidentally restarted before doing /sbin/lilo. Linux wouln't start after that, so I started with my boot disk which loaded kernel 2.4.22. Then I ran sbin/lilo and restarted. Linux did not load after the lilo selection. Black screen. Was it so bad that I missed the step and restarted when I did? Or did I make some other mistake? Someone help because I reinstalled slack 9.1 and am going to update the kernel again, but I would like to prevent the mistake I made...

Ignore my last post...as it seems was being done anyway...I figured out how to do it on my own. But I messed up with the modules so my sound wasn't working...
Now I'm just gonna stick to 2.4.22 for a while and not try to care about being on the bleeding edge. I've learned a lot though, which is good, but if anyone cares to read this, whats up with having to recompile the entire kernel again if you miss installing a module? Thats awful and seems like it would be unaceptable... Maybe there is another way?

read the very first two links on the first sentence of the guide ...
as it will pertain to you ..