Creating a Debian Sarge Install disk with kernel version 2.6.14

[Andrew Thornton <andrew@caret.cam.ac.uk>]

Hi!
  I'm having lot's of trouble creating a debian install disk with 
kernel 2.6.14 for sarge.

My first attempt involved using sarge's versions of 
linux-kernel-di-i386-2.6 and debian-installer. However, 
linux-kernel-di-i386-2.6 fails for 2.6.14. I then tried using an 
unstable debian and however the debian-installer can't create stable 
install images.

My final (hack!) was to use the unstable box to create the kernel udebs, 
then copy them over to the stable box for the debian installer. All 
appeared to work but when I loaded the CD, I get a kernel panic:

<snip/>
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard isa0060/serio0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
VFS: Cannot open root device "rd/0" or unknown-block (0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFSL Unable to mount root fs on 
unknown-block (0,0)

This was from a cd image created from build_monolithic_2.6.

Got any ideas how to do this? I am wrong to be using monolithic_2.6?

thanks,
andy

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Andrew Thornton
andrew@caret.cam.ac.uk / andrew@cbcl.co.uk