They did away with make dep etc... to simplify the build process and make it easier for everyone.

I have been futzing with this all day. I don't even remember how I got this far, BUT, I have at least gotten this kernel to start to boot. It gets as far as trying to mount the root filesystem and then has a kernel panic. My root filesystem is in Reiserfs, and the kernel says it cannot see /dev/hda5. I know for a fact that I told menuconfig to make Reiserfs into the kernel (I went into /usr/src/linux/.config and checked) and not a module. So, I don't know why it cannot see /dev/hda5. How can you check to make sure the Reiserfs stuff is in the bzImage?

BTW,
/dev/hda1 is DOS
/dev/hda2 is /boot (ext2)
/dev/hda3 is /var (ext2)
/dev/hda5 is / (Reiserfs)
/dev/hda6 is /home (Reiserfs)

I hate to be ignorant but without researching at all...

What is the new build process? I just typed in the usual commands to compile and build mine. Perhaps this is what caused it to not work?

that wouldn't be why it didn't work if would have just given a small message about the extra steps not being used anymore

when doing the make for kernel and modules pay special attention to any warnings or errors if there seems to be an issue disable the areas that gave warning or error messages since the new build is real clean the warnings and errors should stand out

Hmmm. I'm wondering if something is hosed...

I gave up trying to boot with Reiserfs built in. Decided to try it with Reiserfs as a module, and make an initrd. Schooled myself up on mkinitrd with man page and Google. Re-made kernel with Reiserfs, ALSA, emu10k1, and 8139too as modules. Used mkinitrd to make a 2.6 image. Edited lilo.conf. Ran /sbin/lilo. Still got a kernel panic. I don't know what's going on...