file under /initrd/lib/modules doesn't exist for make-kpkg made kernel--> does not boot?

[Walter Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca>]

I can't get a make-kpkg kernel to boot. It can't mount the root fs. Note
I am using initrd and compiled make-kpkg with --initrd. One difference
I notice with the stock kernel and mine is:

# locate ext3
/initrd/lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3
/initrd/lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.o
/lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3
/lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.o
/lib/modules/2.4.17mfcf/kernel/fs/ext3
/lib/modules/2.4.17mfcf/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.o


Perhaps this accounts for the difference in behaviour, i.e. 2.4.17-686 boots
but mine 2.4.17mfcf does not? Gives a VHS kernel panic message to the effect
it can't mount the root file system. Note I am using ext3 on the root

in the fstab I put in ext3,ext2 for the type.

-walter