setting up the kernel and the modules.

the kernel goes here
/boot/xxxkernel

you need to modify the /boot/grub/menu.lst
to have the following entry.
i just place this at the top of the previous
entries.

title sasKernel from xxxx
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/xxxkernel root=/dev/hdc1 ro single
savedefault
boot

notice that this is a 2.6 kernel and has kernel modules
the modules start-up is dependent on the file
/etc/modules:
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# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with
# a "#", and everything on the line after them are ignored.

ide-cd
ide-detect
ide-disk
psmouse
sd_mod
sr_mod
## i added these.
radeon
sis
8250
serial_core
-----------------------------------------------------------------

these files are in /lib/modules/2.6.10-xxx/kernel

./drivers
./drivers/char
./drivers/char/drm
./drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko
./drivers/char/drm/sis.ko
./drivers/serial
./drivers/serial/8250.ko
./drivers/serial/serial_core.ko