Yep. Keep the old, add in the new. That way when your compile blows up in your face, you can still boot and recompile

now after installing kernal 2.6
i have a problrm when i was on my krenal2.4 the computer turns off probably
now after installation it hangs at power off
but kernal 2.6 works good

is un-commented in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

thank u very much for reply
but it didn't work

ahmed,

I'm not 100% sure of this, so don't do this until someone else can confirm if this is a good option to you or not.

Hopefully cwwilson or one of the other guys who have been here a while can confirm this.

I have seen that people use the following command to their lilo boot loader.

I think you may need to add this to your lilo file:
append="apm=power-off"

so that as root you would edit the top section of your "/etc/lilo.conf" file to look like something like this (this is mine modified to demonstrate where the changes would take place):

then after you save your changes to the lilo file, you simply run as root in your console "lilo" and it updates the bootloader.

the reason that I caution you to wait and verify is that lilo is your boot loader, and if the file get's messed up there is the chance of you not being able to boot your pc up.

be sure you have a slackware boot disk &/or slackware-install-cd1 whenever you make changes to your lilo.

but I think this might help you.