This text appeared when I tried to boot my newly built kernel. It was followed by: Okay, anybody got an answer for me. I had a hell of a time getting the whole build/install process to go through...

At one point make install complained: /lib/modules/<ref-to-my-kernel> is not a directory (did I omit an important phase?). So I created that directory (I don't know that much, do I )... that got the process through but now I ended at the panic and...

What about passing that option to the kernel in grub.conf on the proper line (yes, make install edited my grub.conf with the otherwise correct lines. Did I omit some big step, seeing that complaint about the missing directory?

I gather this can be caused by a multitude of things, but in my case it went like this...

I built a shiny new 2.6.0-test5-mm4 kernel and upon booting, it paniced. Turned out that I had built ext3 as a module and <insert here why it doesn´t work> thus it was unable to load root filesystem, which is not good. I rebuilt, this time with ext3 in the kernel and all is well.. well, apart from some failures in the init it works. Kinda. My Wacom doesn´t work correctly, but let´s not discuss that.

AFAIK you need new modutils and (I think) binutils in order to be able to correctly boot a 2.6 series kernel with Red Hat. Anyone cna confirm this?

I didn't upgrade my modutils or binutils, and 2.6.0-test5 boots fine with RedHat 9.
But it doesn't seem to be able to load the usb-* modules, which I don't need anyways, the reason may be because of modutils and binutils.
What version of those should I have, and where can I get them?