[gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

[Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca>]

Hello all,

I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds
the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the
kernel on the install cd.  The latter was downloaded and burned from a
very recent autobuild.

The build process appears to complete successfully, with nothing
untoward in the logs.  However, the machine will not boot but hangs at
this point in the process:

root (hd0,0)

Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3 vga=791

[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x2a8d80]

This is the grub.conf:

default 0
timeout 5

title Gentoo genkernel-x86-2.6.32-gentoo-r7
root (hd0,0)

kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3 vga=791
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.32-gentoo-r7

I have verified that the names of the kernel and initrd on the disk
match those in grub.conf.  In any case a wrong filename is usually
signalled as 'not found' during the boot process.

Can anyone suggest how to debug this?

Thanks,
Roger