[Buildroot] Kernel Panic .....

[Joe Pruett]

> > > I am trying to boot the image as an initrd filesystem over pxe, but I see
> > > an error
> > > 'Unpacking initramfs...<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: bad gzip magic numbers'
> > >
> > > in my pxelinux.cfg/default
> > >
> > > label test
> > >   kernel linux-kernel-2.6.19.1-i386
> > >   append ramdisk_blocksize=4096 initrd=rootfs.i386.ext2 root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=524288
> > >
> > > Is there anything I am required to change to make this kernel and image
> > > work over booting from pxe ?
> > 
> > I needed to build some RAM disk drivers into the kernel.
> 
> how exactly did you do that?  that is where i have finally gotten after 
> making that kernel-patches directory (as you also just posted) and fixing 
> the problem that grub no longer has a -19 version at debian.org (-20 seems 
> to be working).  i made an iso image and ran into the same kernel panic 
> because it seems to want a cpio image.  i have just rebuilt using the 
> linux26.config file instead of busybox.config and will be booting in a few 
> minutes to see how that goes...

nope, the linux26.config doesn't seem to help.  so did you just go into 
the linux directory and 'make menuconfig' in there?  or some other magic?