Potato with custom kernel - how?

[Pontus Edvardsson <pontus.edvardsson@bredband.net>]

Hi,
I need to install Potato on a Dell PE4400 server that has a PERC3/Di hardware 
raid. I've tried several different preconfigured rescue-disks, but none of 
them have worked. After having spent over a week on this, I believe I need to 
get some info on how the boot-disks work and why. I really need this server, 
as of a week ago... :(

Anyway, my main question is where I can find good documentation on how to 
custimize bootdisks, and make them work. ;) As of now I get kernel panic when 
booting with my latest creation, and have no clue what so ever, the kernel 
contains everything I need, I updated config.gz and sys_map.gz as well. Might 
it be the root disk causing the failure?

Thanks for your help!

Pontus