On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:19 pm, Jon Dye wrote: > Matt Garman wrote: > > 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 > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
If you followed the install instructions you would have an unmounted /boot partition. Try mount /boot and see what you find. HTH -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
