> > During the install of the 2.4 kernel package. I goot a message about > > needing to add a initrd line to lilo.conf.
This is probably the cause of your problem. I had the same problem the first time I installed a 2.4 kernel package with apt-get. Just follow the instructions and edit your lilo.conf file to point to the initrd file and your machine should work again. HTH
