From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0oSW-0003Fn-1H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:45:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j74MhRec005810; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:43:27 GMT Received: from fep2.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j74Md2mq004717 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:39:02 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.100] (d36-7-237.home1.cgocable.net [24.36.7.237]) by fep2.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7627C1CCC for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 18:39:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42F29933.2030406@interlynx.net> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 18:39:47 -0400 From: "C.Beamer" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing References: <42F287FB.8060200@btopenworld.com> In-Reply-To: <42F287FB.8060200@btopenworld.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3b564bf2-2dcf-4d16-b601-065167c3fe6a X-Archives-Hash: db31ae6fcb2bda3860d2020f5d5f3d53 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey, I don't believe I can actually answer this one. I'm a "noob" to Gentoo! 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 If you used genkernel to install, you kernel is as you stated above, but your initrd file isn't what's stated in the Handbook. The correct initrd file is: initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 I had trouble with this on first install too! :-) Regards, Colleen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC8pkzBEKKz3fpe6IRAhjZAJsEHU32/uaNGq698icalyJrc6xXIQCfZIwN jx5lf0/IBbkSQwhEJsPnGys= =AZnk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list