On my SuSE 10.0 system, I encountered a problem when building initrd during the "make install" part of kernel building for kernels newer than 2.6.14-git1. The problem occurs in the perl module Bootloader/Tools.pm due to the addition of new files named "uevent" in folders /sys/block/hda and /sys/block/hda/hda1, etc. A working fix is in the patch below.

--- /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/Bootloader/Tools.pm.old	2005-10-30 20:16:33.000000000 -0600
+++ /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/Bootloader/Tools.pm	2005-10-30 19:55:53.000000000 -0600
@@ -170,14 +170,17 @@
 
 	foreach my $part (@parts)
 	{
-	    chomp ($part);
-	    $part = Udev2Dev ("$disk/$part");
-	    my $index = substr ($part, length ($dev_disk));
-	    while (length ($index) > 0 && substr ($index, 0, 1) !~ /[0-9]/)
+	    if ($part ne "uevent")
 	    {
-		$index = substr ($index, 1);
+	        chomp ($part);
+	        $part = Udev2Dev ("$disk/$part");
+	        my $index = substr ($part, length ($dev_disk));
+	        while (length ($index) > 0 && substr ($index, 0, 1) !~ /[0-9]/)
+	        {
+		    $index = substr ($index, 1);
+	        }
+	        push @devices, [$part, $dev_disk, $index];
 	    }
-	    push @devices, [$part, $dev_disk, $index];
 	}
     }
     return \@devices;