Thx for the assist
I prep my system like this:
1)su - root
cd /usr/src
wget http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/4.4.176-gnu/linux-libre-4.4.176-gnu.tar.xz
tar -xvpf linux-4.4.176.tar.xz
2)cd linux-4.4.176
zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
make olddefconfig
3)
4)make -j4 modules && make modules_install
5)cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-generic-4.4.176
cp System.map /boot/System.map-generic-4.4.176
cp .config /boot/config-generic-4.4.176
####Also cp for rebuilding the iso
cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /root/kernel/huge.s
etc
6)cd /boot
rm System.map
rm config
ln -s System.map-generic-4.4.176 System.map
ln -s config-generic-4.4.176 config
7)/usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh -k 4.4.176
/sbin/lilo then reboot then start the package building process