So I finally have a little time to work on a custom kernel for my Myth Frontends

Larry Matter over at linpvr.org has created a article on doing this amazing feat,
Build your own Linux Distro - Part I and I am going to follow his guide.

Building BusyBox

for some reason my tar did not have the -j option for bzip
I was looking around and found 2 versions of tar. I tracked down the one to gnu-tar that I needed for installing a newer version of XFree 4.4. I uninstalled that and continued on with BusyBox.

The config.h file did not have VI enabled, so I had to uncomment line 137. I can not live without vi on a linux system!

Building the Kernel.
I had to run
#make menuconfig
Then save, if not the .config would be ignored.

I also tested the new system by chrooting in and then I ran ldconfig for good measures.

The rest of the article went like clock work and I now have a bootable kernel on my mini itx. Next I am going to upgrade the kernel to see what happens.

Thanks Larry!