On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 01:08:43PM -0000, Gavin wrote:
> default 0
> timeout 3
> #splashimage=(hd0,0)boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title=GENTOOLINUX-2.6.15-R7
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.15-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda3
> 

So when you manually edit the kernel line in GRUB CLI you end up with a
line like

kernel bzimage root=/dev/hda3

?

If so, then it sounds like you are missing the symlink in /boot for
boot.  (cd /boot && ln -s . boot)

You can try removing the /boot from your kernel line instead of fixing
the symlink, since hd0,0 is /boot, there is no real need to preface the
kernel line with /boot. The synlink is just used for compatibility (and
in fact, I remove it during install as I don't care for circular
symlinks).

The other issue is your kernel may not be "kernel-2.6.15-gentoo-r7" but
some variation, and the symlink for bzimage is pointing to the correct
spelling of the kernel name.

As for the reiserfs, I wasn't truley aware of the boot issues, but now I
do recall reading that. I do add notail to all my reiserfs mount points,
so it's not an issue for me. I would think it's not the root cause of
your problem, as you are able to boot the system. I believe if it was
truly a reiserfs issue, you could not get the system to boot from /boot.
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