[oe] 'Generic' x86 build

[Chris Tapp]

I've spent the past couple of weeks trying to get a build that will  
work on generic pc hardware (board is alix, but 'regular' linux  
distros run ok), but I've not found a combination that builds and then  
runs correctly.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a distro/machine pair that  
should give me this?

I've tried:

minimal    / alix  console-image : builds ok  but /sbin/init isn't  
found at boot even though it's in the image.
angstrom / x86  console-image : builds ok but the inittab in the image  
doesn't work with busybox and needs to be replaced in the initrd.  
Suffers from 'swapper' not going idle.

Various other distro/machine pairs that I've tried simply fail to  
build - I guess because they're not designed to work together?

Any clues will be gratefully received :-)

Chris