[PLUG] Rolling your own distro

[Eric Hidle <junkmail@ie-ap.org>]

So, I'm trying to roll my own distribution. I used Puppy as a starting 
point, and picked up the initrd-util script to build initial ramdisk images.

What I did initially was change the kernel on the boot device, in this 
case a USB Flash drive, from 2.4 to 2.6, and use the initrd-util to 
unpack the stock image.gz, add the 2.6 modules, gzipped -r the modules 
directory, and repack the image.gz.

On the old image.gz with the 2.4 kernel, everything worked great as 
expected. On the new kernel, it starts booting the kernel, and 
eventually panics out after a much of "attempt to access beyond the end 
of the device" and other ext2 errors. The final error is something along 
the lines of "can't find init, goodbye!"

The boot loader is syslinux, the pen drive is formatted FAT, the 
image.gz is formatted ext2, and the 2.6.11 kernel is the stock FC4 kernel.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Eric
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