the kernel source rpm included in the kernel source rpm in beta2 is extremely borked. Attempting to compile a custom kernel from it fails in many places because several options in it have been broken to not compile as modules (floppy, ramdisk, etc.) Ideally, these need to be fixed to compile as modules. Barring that, they need to be fixed to not allow modular compile as an option.
This is still true with kernel-source-2.4.6-3.1; lots of stuff can be configured as a module, but will only compile monolithic.
Created attachment 24907 [details] dump of compile of modules for 2.4.6-3.1
Created attachment 24908 [details] config file attempting to use with 2.4.6-2 and 2.4.6-3.1
Did you run "make mrproper" before starting the build?
I'm a moron! Sorry, I thought I'd remembered to do that, but apparently not.... I'm closing this.