Upgrading 7.1 to 2.2.19 w/ ReiserFS

I am trying to upgrade my SuSE 7.1 system to 2.2.19, according to SuSE-SA:2001:039. At Step 10, configuring and creating the initrd, I get the output: using "/dev/hda4" as root device (mounted on "/") creating initrd "//boot/initrd" for kernel "//boot/vmlinuz" (2.2.19) failed to mount image Note: the root partition is ReiserFS and /boot is ext2fs. I do NOT have RAM disk and initrd support compiled in the running kernel. Is this my problem? TIA, Jeffrey -- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck