I'm still unable to boot the 3.4 even with the suggested cheatcodes I got a copy of 3.6 as well and no joy with all the suggested cheatcodes. Apparently the new hardware scripts will not allow me to instruct the kernel where to find my cdrom. The Sony external cdrom is a proprietary lashup that joins the bus at an odd address. . .hence the instruction ide2=0x180,0x386.
Unfortunately the new kernel setup doesn't pick up this instruction. Guess I'm out of the hunt for now.