Re: Re-compiling w/PPP

[Mitchell Maltenfort]

>the purposes of doing some re-compiling of the kernel.  Since Red Hat
>installs PPP as a module by default, I wanted to include it into the
>kernel, so I did a 'make xconfig', chose that option and did all the
>necessary steps:  make dep, make clean, make zImage, make modules, and
>make modules_install.
>
>That image will not boot.  It hangs after about 3 dots at the LILO
>prompt.
>

A step you didn't list may be the one you skipped.  You had to run
/sbin/lilo.