I've just installed Gentoo 2004.0 (with the 2.6.3 kernel), but I'm experiencing some problems:
I got the error that devfs wasn't supported, so I did the following:

# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig

- enabled the devfs support and the "mount at boot" option and exited and saved

# make install
# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/linux-2.6.3

Then I edited Grub, to match the kernel. Here's my grub.conf:

default 0
timeout 15
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2004.0
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/linux-2.6.3 root=/dev/hda3

This file is exactly the same as the one I had before, only I changed the last line to match with the name of my new kernel.

Now...when I boot, I get the error "file not found" for the kernel (after I've pressed <enter> in Grub.

What can I do about this?

I've checked that the file (linux-2.6.3) exists in /boot

(please keep in mind that I am a n00b when you explain )

double check the spelling
or you can do this: when you're in the grub menu type 'c' to get a prompt, enter
that should give you a list of files it can see

It can't see the new kernel...only the first one, where the devfs isn't supported...

then copy it again, make sure you copy it to the right place

Also, make sure that /boot is mounted when you copy the new kernel to that location!

Since the default in Gentoo is not to mount /boot at startup it is possible to actually copy the kernel image to /boot when it isn't mounted - effectively copying it to the / file system instead to the /boot filesystem.


Håkan

Thanks!

The problem were the mounting.
I've been so stressed and trying - rebooting - trying - rebooting over and over again, and didn't think of the mounting

Now...the big X...hehe...you'll probably hear from me again