Hi Rich,
Thanks for all the help, I did as instructed in your last post, and that all went okay, and then I went ahead and copied all the kernel files (if that's the right word) to /mnt/sdb1/tce/optional, and then I copied the base_modules.tgz to /home/tc and then started going through the instructions in the file you attached (to build a new initrd).
I got up to the second move command, "sudo mv ../base/usr/local........" and that didn't work for me, I have only a "lib" directory underneath "base", there's no "usr" directory under "base" at all ?
Not sure what I did wrong.
Thanks,
David