Sorted...

In a previous life the system had Suse installed. Since then I have had a Grub loading message which required sorting after installing Slackware.

This meant booting from a slack bootdisk and entering at the prompt...
lilo -b /dev/hda

just remembered this and it has sorted the problem. Now using the new kernel. Didn't it boot faster.

Thanks for your time again.

Solved kenel install.
 

Found kernel on disk 4 in extras, Installed with modules then used installpkg, went out to my master hda and edited grub with new kernel 2.6.18, rebooted and it worked. I just like to thank everyone that had input.

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