Building a minimal linux

I have been following this site in order to build a linux in size of 10MB or less: here

I'm fairly certain there were no errors up until the last point, where I'm actually testing the image, when I use qemu-system-i386 -L . -hda minux.img

instead of actually booting to # as said in the tutorial I'm greeted by grub. in order to run it I used kernel /boot/kernel_name then boot, which ultimately fails with:

here is my grub.conf file, identical to the one he is using. So far the only difference I've managed to find was in fdisk, where my starting sector is 2048, since it's the minimum I can set using fdisk and as a consequence the offset is bigger. another difference is that I'm using x86_64-pc grub and some of my busybox libs are named differently, but this should not interfere with boot.

How could I fix/better the procedure to make my linux work? Or is there a better way to make a linux distribution under 10MB?