I have knoppix v. 3.2 installed on my hd and it works quit fine,
but now I wanna install a standard kernel (2.4.22) which I have patched for
xfs and Win4lin. The kernel compiles just fine with no errors, but I can't boot
Can anybody tell when I need to make an initrd...... .img ( and initrd.... .img entry in lilo.config) and when not if I install and compile a new kernel??

ps I installed and compiled kernel before (with debian-way) succesfully which
also gave me an initrd...img file , but then win4lin-patch didn't work , now
I compiled and installed with classic linux-way : make dep, clean , bzImage,
modules , modules install.

When do I need to use initrd?

Thanks,
jackren