I just installed Mandrake 10.1 Official on a Dell Dimension 2350. Motherboard is has Intel 845 chipset. Iv also installed a pci Nvidia Geforce 4 card and a Sound Blaster 16 card. Anyways when I boot with the 2.6 kernel it causes a kernel panic. The 2.4 kernel it ships with boots up just fine and Fedora Core 3 boots just fine. Any ideas on what may be wrong? Thanks!

nothing simple. make few changes to ur bootloader which shud b i guess grub.
just do to the command line of grub and highlight the entry for ur 2.6 kernel.
now bfore u edit it u must know where is ur new kernel and which is the /boot partition if it is , else which is root partition for new kernel.
now change the entry labeled root(hdx,y) to
root (hda,b) { this the root / boot for ur new kernel }
now on the next line u will hve ....
something like ...
ro root LBAEL=/ etc etc .
make this ro root LABEL = /dev/hda( or hdb accordingly) /kernel image path
and boot from this kernel if it doesn't try changing the partition at time we messit up.
it will work 101% .
bye bye .

Well I think i solved my problem. I tried the bootloader method and it didn't work (thanks anyways!). My nvidia card was conflicting my built in video adapter and there wasn't a pin to pull to disable it so i just took my nvidia card out and everything was ok.