Cant boot Gentoo

[budman7]

sdousley, looking at yours, what is the name of the kernel?
Shouldn't it be 2.6.xxx or something like that.
No, Gentoo is on (hd0, or hda9. depending on which angle you look at it.

No bootloader, I am using SUSE's grub to boot everything.

There is no K missing in front of the kernel name, in your quote it is missing, but not in mine.

And lloking at the syntax in my entry for Gentoo, I can't figure out what the problem is.

[jaboua]

sdousley, looking at yours, what is the name of the kernel?
Shouldn't it be 2.6.xxx or something like that.

You can name your kernel whatever you want as long as you give that name to grub/lilo.

[budman7]

I learned something new today. I always thought you had to go with that name that was given. The 2.6.xxxx. Thanks jaboua.

[budman7]

I can boot Gentoo now. I added /boot in front of the /kernel and /initrd entries.
You can't imagine how happy I was to see "Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel."

But the networking doesn't work. think I will start a new topic for that though.

[sdousley]

sdousley, looking at yours, what is the name of the kernel?
Shouldn't it be 2.6.xxx or something like that.

nope, it is bzImage, that's what i saved it as. I guess i should save it as kernel-2.6.11-r4 or something (what ever version it is) But i dont it that way now!! hehe

[jaboua]

If you instead of copying the kernel manually, run "make install", it will automaticly call your kernel vmlinuz in the 2.6-series, so I guess thats the default.

[loft306]

hey guys please use [code] tags to post anything having to du with grub so that you wont get thoes smilies in the middle of everything