The documentation on making a custom kernel needs to be updated. In patricular, there's no mention of System.map. The section on monolithic kernels is incorrect, as rc.sysinit no longer has a one line call to depmod. Rather, the user should be advised to add append=nomodules to her lilo.conf
Thanks for the feedback -- I'm moving this to the docs group for followup...
Added corrected information to Ref Guide for next version release.