[syslinux] Kernel problems?

[ganapathy murali krishnan]

This is not exactly a syslinux question, but I guess many people here 
might recognize the problem.

I just built a new kernel for ISOLINUX to use. This kernel has initrd 
and ramdisk enabled. When I boot into this new kernel (using ISOlinux, 
but that does not matter), it uncompresses the initial ramdisk. When it 
has finished about 90%-99% of the uncompression, it just reboots without 
any panic message or anything.

The same ramdisk works fine with an older kernel. So obviously the fault 
is with the kernel configurations. Googling did nt get me anything 
helpful (they just say possible problems with the creation of the initrd 
image).

Any hints as to what I should look for?

- Murali