What I meant is, can you install kernel-source-2.6.8, configure all drivers needed for bringing up your root filesystem into the kernel, build that kernel, and boot it.
Works fine.
Does this mean the ramdisk is bad? Any way I can get some debug output from it? After the "NET: Registered protocol family 1", there is a long pause before init crashes.
This machine has 64M of RAM, perhaps that's relevent... how much memory does your 43P-100 have?
-Hollis