Hello:
I used the Athlon XP v1.4 (dated 9/11) Live CD disk 1 to do a Stage 3 install of Gentoo. Everything *seemed* to go okay, until reboot, when Grub couldn't find the kernel.
I used the Live CD as a rescue disk, looked at my install drive, and, sure enough, no kernel was installed! Also, the /lib/modules directory tree was empty.
Now, I'm not (completely) crazy; I specifically remember (during the initial install) doing an "emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" then a "emerge -k genkernel" and finally running "genkernel --config". I made a few minor configuration changes to the kernel (mostly removing unneeded modules), then waited while it built bzImage, modules, did a make modules_install, etc. It took a while, so *something* was going on :) Unfortunately, I don't remember if it exited with an error code (I'm pretty sure I would have noticed that though).
As I said, however, for some reason, neither the kernel nor the modules (or even the initrd) got installed. So I repeated the above steps after rescueing from the Live CD. My kernel config options had persisted, and this time the kernel, initrd, modules, etc all actually got installed.
Did you create a seperate /boot partition? If so did you look in there for your kernel rather than the / partition (which would of had an empty /boot in that case). You also need to tell grub to look in your /root partition rather than the / one for the kernel and then as a kernel option pass the correct root. e.g.
kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2
(assuming /boot as first parition and / as second).
JD
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