installing new kernel failed
 

hi after 3 days of bloody work, my new kernel still didn't work!!!
I need to upgrade the kernel to be 2.6.1 and I did the following to my RH 9 with 2.4.20-8 kernel.
make, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install all went fine.
I mkinitrd initrd-2.6.1.img 2.6.1
I copied the initrd-2.6.1.img to /boot/
then I copied the arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/bzImage-2.6.1
and I copied System.map to /boot/System.map-2.6.1
then removed System.map and created a new one ln -s System.map-2.6.1 System.map

at last I edited the grub.conf to be
title rehhat 2.6.1
root (hd0, 1)
kernel /bzImage-2.6.1 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.6.1.img
title rehhat 2.4.20-8
root (hd0, 1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title DOS

......

on reboot i selected the 2.6.1 kernel and it failed, didn't show me any error message, it went straight into another reboot, the old kernel boots up fine.
I changed the root(hd0 ,1) to be (hd0, 2) and it says file not found, Kernel /bzImage-2.6.1
can anyone help me solve this problem? there must be someone has done it, and I have been scratching my head for 3 days.
btw, what about the modules_info-2.4.20-8 file in the /boot? should there be a new modules_info-2.6.1 there?

thanks,

You copied the files to /boot but specified in grubconf that they're in /. You probably need to fix it.

i booted fine on a intel based motherboard, it failed on this VIA EPIA mini-itx 800 mhz board. anyone had the same problem here?

thats probly cuse you didetn configure teh kernel right, you ahve to tell it what prosessor you use, and what bord to use (closest one), otherwise it wont work, *like writing a blue print without any pictures in chinese, and asking a americian to build whatever the prints said to build (and the americain cant read anyhtign but english/american english)*

I did configure the CPU family to be VIA C3 type. no mistake in this part. what else could go wrong?