The instructions in the RHL 6.1 reference manual still are incorrect for building a working kernel. We've argued this point back in bug 860. I still contend that RedHat's instructions SHOULD produce a working kernel. Telling users to use "make boot" when "make boot" will ALWAYS fail (make bzImage perhaps is more appropriate) seems like a documentation bug to me. Let's look at it this way. A user reading these instructions, after installing the kernel source RPM, should be able to produce a functioning kernel using the instructions in the RedHat documentation. Anyone agree with me now?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5347 ***