Long story short, I wanted to update Mer 0.16 to use Debian SID repos instead of Ubuntu, which led to udev being updated, which now necessitates a kernel upgrade.

Anyway, I grabbed the latest CodeSourcery arm-none-linux-gnueabi toolchain, checked out the 2.6.32 branch of the Linux-OMAP git, used a supposedly working config from http://natisbad.org/N810/index.html, and built a kernel. That went OK, so I booted into Maemo and copied the new modules to the initfs (I figure they're necessary to boot anything).

After flashing the kernel, I don't even get to the bootmenu, it just shuts down at the Nokia logo. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong here? I'm guessing it has something to do with the initfs, but am hardly knowledgeable in that area.

I really don't care about messing anything up, for what it's worth, so don't worry about that. Also, I'm running Gentoo, if that makes a difference.

Thanks.