suse kernel compiling different

[mr orion77]

im setting up the dreaded alcatel usb with my suse box and compiled the kernel and all using a tarball of the 2.4.22 kern.
it dosent seem to work, the old kernel is booting up, i have compiled kernels on my debian box and with slackware and had no probs.
i had configured lilo fine(well i thought i had)
is there a process that suse has to use or something?

in the /usr/src directory i noticed that that other directories had been installed afterwrads, linux-2.4.2-.suse and linux.

im a bit baffled by this one, if someone would enlighten me i'd be happy.

[mdwatts]

Did all the kernel compiling steps complete successfully?

The new kernel image and System.map moved/copied to /boot, a new initrd (if required) created and the new kernel added to your bootloader config?

Doesn't SuSE use Grub by default?

[mr orion77]

yeah it all went smoothly:
make xconfig
make dep
make bzimage
make modules
make install
make modules_install

then reboot and hey presto its still the 2.4.20 kernel.

its been quite a pain has suse, i bought the pro version and its not all that, but thats the fun huh :D

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by mr orion77
yeah it all went smoothly:
make xconfig
make dep
make bzimage
make modules
make install
make modules_install

then reboot and hey presto its still the 2.4.20 kernel.

its been quite a pain has suse, i bought the pro version and its not all that, but thats the fun huh :D

I just started using SuSE 8.2 Pro a couple of months ago and I haven't found any differences with other distros I have used when it comes to compiling the kernel and setting up the bootloader.

As I posted above and what serz posted... did you add a new entry to your bootloader config for the 2.4.22 kernel?

If you are in fact using Lilo, did you run

/sbin/lilo

as root after modifying /etc/lilo.conf?

Do you get a 2.4.22 selection at the initial boot menu?