Lilo problems in slackware 10.2

[Gallienus]

Recently I insalled slackware 10.2 using the 2.6.13 kernel on a spare hard drive, sdb. The install went flawlessly and everything was running fine. After I installed all the appropriate packages for the 2.6.13 kernel I made an initrd.gz file using the following command while in the /boot directory:

mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.13 -m jbd:ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/sdb1

I added the initrd.gz file to lilo.conf and updated lilo. When I rebooted the computer I got the following messeage during the boot sequence.

Ramdisk: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
/boot/initrd.gz: Loading kernel modules from initrd image:
using /lib/modules/2.6.13/jbd.ko
using /lib/modules/2.6.13/ext3.ko
mount: Mounting /dev/sdb1 on /mnt failed no such device
ERROR: Mount returned error code 1
trouble ahed
mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /mnt failed: invalid argument
mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /mnt failed: invalid argument
/boot/initrd.gz exiting
pivot_root: pivot_root: Device or resource busy

After that the boot process halts but the computer doesn't freeze I just have a
# prompt. I googled but nothing seems to apply. TIA for any advice or recommendations.

[je_fro]

Did you build in support for the filesystem type on /dev/sdb1 ?
Or SATA/SCSI support?

[Gallienus]

Since I used the standard 2.6.13 slackware packages for kernel modules and it was running fine before I made the initrd.gz file I figued it was already built in. I also checked all the symlinks and system map and vmlinuz were both pointing to the approriate 2.6.13 files.