[ydl-gen] Kernel hacking

[Warren Nagourney]

For a number of reasons, I have gone into the kernel hacking business  
in YDL 5.02 on a PS3 and started by taking the 2.6.23 kernel (from  
the most recent CELL linux ADDON iso) and compiling it, following the  
instructions in the Cell Performance article on making huge pages. I  
made the appropriate changes in the kboot.conf file to reflect the  
new kernel and tried to boot. SInce this is my first attempt at  
kernel manufacture, I was not surprised that it didn't work: I got an  
error message "switchroot: mount failed" and a kernel panic.

I looked at the init file in the initrd image and compared it to the  
one in the initrd for a working kernel: they were identical (not  
surprising, since the same mkinitrd was probably used for both). Does  
anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

Warren Nagourney