You will find this is not the only error to give such problems.  I have 
been unsuccessfully attempting to create a gentoo system for over a 
week - many faults.  I believe it is too close to the cutting edge with 
its standard download distribution.  Even after I got a system 
quasi-working on another box (which I am using now), emerging new 
applications broke old ones (e.g., sound).

I too am about ready to revert to a distribution which is more reliable 
- Linux From Scratch.  Sorry I can not aid you with your problem.

On Thursday 26 February 2004 03:36 pm, Bill Jenkins wrote:
> How in the world did all you guys get gentoo working???  I can' t get
> it to boot.
> Grub gives me "error 8: kernel must be loaded before booting"
> I've posted my grub.conf, /etc/fstab, output of parted.  I've
> compiled the scsi driver for my card,
> an adaptec 2940u2w, directly into the kernel. I even went into my
> /boot dir and made a simlink:
> ln -s  /boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 /boot/bzImage because I thought
> it might be looking for something by that name.
> (I may have it backward, but the link was named bzImage.)  I've been
> doing this long enough to know that it's something simple
> but I can't figure it out.
>
> I'm about ready to throw up my hands and go back to
> redhat/debian/bsd, or something that's merely difficult but not
> impossible.
>
> many thanks,
>
> Bill Jenkins
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