rescue CD for debian sarge linux with speakup

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I am having a very odd issue with kernel installation.  I 
recompiled the 2.6.17 kernel with speakup installed as downloaded the 
source from the people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernels and all I 
changed was I enabled the kernel config file to be included in the 
kernel which should have been enabled in the first place.  I then 
rebuilt the kernel image and replaced it with the older one that came 
with the package.  I did not change anything else and everything went 
well, the kernel even booted and came up talking.  I then got this 
error when trying to mount root filesystem 
/lib/modules/2.6.17-speakup-686/dep.modules or modules.dep no such file 
or directory.  I might have miss spelled some of that but I think you 
can understand what is happening here.  For some odd reason either the 
initrd image or the main file system modules.dep file is not being seen 
by the kernel.  What is a good rescue CD that works to allow me to 
mount that filesystem and fix the error?  What command can I use to 
rebuild the initrd image using yaird?

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