THe size of the ramdisk is not even close to the original. Which since I am using the same config I would have thought it to be the same size. initrd.2.6.9-11.ELcustom 307K initrd.2.6.9-11.EL 390K Jerry ------------------------ That is supposed to happen in the "make install". In fact I looked at /boot and it is there. Jerry On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:05:36AM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: >// I am attempting to recompile the kernel with the following steps. //>/ />/ Install kernel-sourcecode rpm />/ />/ cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-11.EL />/ cp /boot/config-2.6.9-11.EL .config />/ make menuconfig />/ Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Serial Drivers />/ change Max number of non legacy 8250_NR_UARTS to 36 />/ make bzImage />/ make modules_install />/ make install / you forgot to rebuild the ramdisk ? mkinitrd ... Tru -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050614/980e6990/attachment-0004.html>