Thank you guys for your help. I was able to compile the kernel this time and after reboot I was greeted with gentoo terminal. But now I'm facing different issues.
1) I primarily use ubuntu on my machine and already it is dual booted with Windows xp.
But after I installed gentoo, grub is only offering me to boot into gentoo and some other
recovery mode( no ubuntu or windows ). So with a ubuntu live cd I had to re-install grub
to get back my old system. So how do I tripple boot my system with gentoo (if at all it is
possible)?
By the way, while installing grub for the gentoo partition I got the following messages.
Code:
sumanta-Lenovo-G570 / # grub2-install /dev/sda
Installing for i386-pc platform.
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Installation finished. No error reported.
sumanta-Lenovo-G570 / # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
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Found linux image: /boot/kernel-2.6.24
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done
What does it mean?
2) When I was in the gentoo terminal I could log into it as root. But when I issued
startx it was showing no command found 'startx'!! So I tried to emerge xfree but it
was showing some 'package not found' error... What to do next?
P.S. Below is the output of the fdisk command to clarify the partitioning of my disk.
Code:
sumanta@sumanta-Lenovo-G570:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
[sudo] password for sumanta:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004a591
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 102398309 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda2 968499198 976771071 4135937 5 Extended
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda3 102400000 493023231 195311616 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 493025280 959822154 233398437+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 968499200 976771071 4135936 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Windows: /dev/sda1
Ubuntu: /dev/sda3
Gentoo: /dev/sda4