Fedora Users — framebuffer fails in standard kernel

I generally don't care about using framebuffers, and when I do I havebeen building a kernel from source with the framebuffer built in.However, in the last month, I've had three cases where I wanted to bootwith a stock modular kernel and framebuffer, and it hasn't worked.

I have built a new initrd with the framebuffer and any needed modulesadded with "--preload" to get them in early. I have put video=<fb>information in the boot, and always the kernel boots, reads the bootoptions, and just goes away. Verified using intelfb, radeonfb, andatyfb, each with any needed drivers. But if I build these kernels fromsource, changing the default config only by building-in the samemodules, it works fine.

The last time I tried this with a post-2.4 kernel, it worked, but thatwas a 2.5 kernel, and I haven't needed any video performance since.

Is this typical, should it just work, or ??? I have multiple systems totry, and all with work fine if I build in the exact same modules.