Bruce, You da man. That did it. I had to reinstall the alsa drivers, using the latest 0.5.12a version. Thanks! And thanks to Harry, Gerhard, and Philipp for the pointers that brought me closer to the resolution. ...
do also the following - mk_initrd -k "vmlinuz-2.4.16" -i "initrd-2.4.16"
Thanks, that's exactly what I did. Now the kernel boots, but it's not able to load any modules after it's up. For example, when it first boots it cannot find "emu10k1.o". However, I did make modules and make modules_install and I can see /lib/modules/2.4.16-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o
Sounds like you are just running into 'sound' problems.
SuSE uses ALSA and doesn't use any of the normal kernel modules for sound.
You'd probably be better off using the ALSA stuff at: www.alsa-project.org
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