Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com>]

Stewart Taylor wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I've been trying to install Gentoo. I want to see if Gentoo is for me so 
> I've kept it simple. My first attempt I tried a stage1 install, as this 
> failed the second time I tried a stage3 install, if it failed less time 
> wasted. Both times I opted for a genkernel install, everything seemed 
> OK, no error messages and all stages completed. However both times when 
> I get to 7.d ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initrd* I get the same result both 
> times:
> /boot/initrd*:no such file or directory
> /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-genkernel-r6
> 
> Taking the entry in the grub configure example as a guide I've searched 
> for any initrd files just in case it's somewhere else the only entries 
> are a couple of .gz files in /usr/man/man4 nothing else.
> 
> I could use some help to sort this out as I have no idea what to do.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Stewart

With recent versions of genkernel you should do "ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initramfs*" instead.  Note that the initramfs or initrd is not required if your kernel has sufficient drivers built in.

Zac
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