kernel won't boot after compilation
 

When upgrading my kernel from redhats 2.4.20-9 kernel to
2.5.69 and i try to boot into the new kernel it freezes here with no known error:
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.

i extracted the tar file ran make menuconfig then make
install which had no errors then changed my grub config manually

if it helps i have redhat 9

can someone help?

The 2.5.x series are 'unstable' kernels.
You might want to stick with 2.4.x unless you've got some hardware probs that 2.5.x fixes

you'll have to try a whole bunch of different kernel configs,
and eventually, you'll get something to boot. try removing
all scsi, sound, and stuff you don't have to have to boot,
and that will make your troubleshooting easier, and
recompilation faster. I sometimes use a binary type sort
on stuff like that. get it working, then add back half the
stuff you had before. if that doesn't work remove that
half, and try the other half. it doesn't take too long to get
it down to what doesn't work right.