I am trying to compile a new kernel for my system
this is my first experience I read many tuotrials and have tried to do

cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.18.1
make menuconfig
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make
make install

initially i did not had an idea of what a config file is so when ever I made some thing out of make menuconfig
when I tried to boot with this new kernel I always got an error Kernel Panic tried to kill init
some tutorial on net suggested to use the config file from /boot

when I did a make menuconfig from this config file in boot
I got a lot of warning messages like

Non existing symbols

HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/textbox.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/mconf
scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig
.config:74:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol MODULE_SIG
.config:75:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol MODULE_SIG_FORCE
.config:82:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol UTRACE
.config:83:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol PTRACE
.config:110:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol X86_XEN
.config:169:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SWIOTLB
.config:192:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol REGPARM
.config:194:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol VGA_NOPROBE
.config:246:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol PCI_GOXEN_FE
.config:250:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_PCIDEV_FRONTEND
.config:251:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_PCIDEV_FE_DEBUG
.config:322:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_ROUTE_FWMARK
.config:471:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_MATCH_DSCP
.config:476:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_MATCH_HASHLIMIT
.config:499:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol IP_NF_TARGET_DSCP
.config:602:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol DECNET_ROUTE_FWMARK
.config:776:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol TUX
.config:781:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol TUX_EXTCGI
.config:782:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol TUX_EXTENDED_LOG
.config:783:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol TUX_DEBUG
.config:1132:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA
.config:1133:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_AHCI
.config:1134:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_SVW
.config:1135:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_ATA_PIIX
.config:1136:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_MV
.config:1137:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_NV
.config:1138:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_PDC_ADMA
.config:1140:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_QSTOR
.config:1141:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_PROMISE
.config:1142:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_SX4
.config:1143:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_SIL
.config:1144:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_SIL24
.config:1145:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_SIS
.config:1146:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_ULI
.config:1147:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_VIA
.config:1148:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_VITESSE
.config:1149:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_SATA_INTEL_COMBINED
.config:1810:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol CRASH
.config:2106:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol VIDEO_SAA7134_DVB_ALL_FRONTENDS
.config:2116:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol VIDEO_CX88_DVB_ALL_FRONTENDS
.config:2417:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SND_AC97_BUS
.config:2569:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol USB_HIDINPUT
.config:2753:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol INFINIBAND_SDP
.config:2754:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol INFINIBAND_SDP_DEBUG
.config:2755:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol INFINIBAND_SDP_DEBUG_DATA
.config:2774:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol EDAC_K8
.config:2877:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol FSCACHE
.config:2888:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol CACHEFILES
.config:2889:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol CACHEFILES_DEBUG
.config:2934:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SQUASHFS
.config:2935:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SQUASHFS_EMBEDDED
.config:2936:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SQUASHFS_FRAGMENT_CACHE_SIZE
.config:2937:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SQUASHFS_VMALLOC
.config:2953:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol NFS_FSCACHE
.config:3091:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol UNWIND_INFO
.config:3092:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol STACK_UNWIND
.config:3094:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol BOOT_DELAY
.config:3115:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SECURITY_SECLVL
.config:3155:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol CRYPTO_SIGNATURE
.config:3156:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol CRYPTO_SIGNATURE_DSA
.config:3157:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol CRYPTO_MPILIB
.config:3164:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN
.config:3165:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_INTERFACE_VERSION
.config:3170:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST
.config:3171:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_UNPRIVILEGED_GUEST
.config:3172:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_PRIVCMD
.config:3173:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_XENBUS_DEV
.config:3174:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_BACKEND
.config:3175:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND
.config:3176:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_BLKDEV_TAP
.config:3177:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND
.config:3178:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_NETDEV_PIPELINED_TRANSMITTER
.config:3179:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_NETDEV_LOOPBACK
.config:3180:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND
.config:3181:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_VPCI
.config:3182:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_PASS
.config:3183:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_SLOT
.config:3184:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_PCIDEV_BE_DEBUG
.config:3185:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_TPMDEV_BACKEND
.config:3186:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
.config:3187:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND
.config:3188:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_FRAMEBUFFER
.config:3189:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_KEYBOARD
.config:3190:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_SCRUB_PAGES
.config:3191:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_DISABLE_SERIAL
.config:3192:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_SYSFS
.config:3193:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_COMPAT_030002_AND_LATER
.config:3194:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_COMPAT_LATEST_ONLY
.config:3195:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_COMPAT_030002
.config:3196:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_SKB
.config:3197:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol HAVE_ARCH_DEV_ALLOC_SKB
.config:3198:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol HAVE_IRQ_IGNORE_UNHANDLED
.config:3199:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol NO_IDLE_HZ
.config:3200:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_UTIL
.config:3201:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_BALLOON
.config:3202:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_DEVMEM
.config:3203:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_SKBUFF
.config:3204:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_REBOOT
.config:3205:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol XEN_SMPBOOT
.config:3230:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol X86_NO_TSS
.config:3231:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol X86_NO_IDT


the problem is where I am doing mistake to compile a new kernel I tried to install
can some one point my mistake in compilation most of the tutorials I searched on forums and Interent were copied and pasted with same language every where

so some one who really knows how to compile the kernel pls tell me
I have tried to compile 2.6.18.1
2.6.20.3
2.6.20.4
every time I got the same error that means I am doing the same mistake every time
I have a Pentium D CPU can some one tell me how to select options in make menuconfig to be able to make a correct config file

You have messed up the 2.4.x compiling procedure with the 2.6.x compiling procedure. Follow this

thank you I shall try and tell you the result