failed gentoo, need grub help
 

When I boot my system, it comes up to a grub command line where I can't boot anything cause it says the kernel is missing

I partitioned the drives as follows

/boot is /dev/hda1
/ is /dev/hda2
swap is /dev/hdb1
/home is /dev/hdb2


Grub looks like this

timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.5
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.5-gentoo root=/dev/hda2


I thought I followed Gentoo's instructions, but now i'm not so sure. Can someone tell me what I did wrong.
thanks

Did you use genkernel or did you do the kernel by yourself? Also check that kernel part in grub. There is usually a -r# from the kernel. The # depends on the release of the kernel you are using.

I compiled the kernel. Their doc doesn't have a -r switch on the gentoo manual

The doc shows this The -r# i was talking about is where it shows
The one you have posted is missing that last -r#, kernel /kernel-2.6.5-gentoo,which is what I think is causing the problems.

My kernel doesn't have the -r# in its name. its name is "kernel-2.6.7-gentoo" and yes, Even though I posted 2.6.5, it is 2.6.7 as the filename and in the grub.conf. Adding more characters to it would make it a wrong filename and wouldn't help in my mind

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EDIT:
GOT IT SOLVED

Thanks for all the help everyone

Just curious, what was the problem? I'm glad you got it working though.