Can't boot specified kernel!?[solved]

[Hauser]

I've compiled a new kernel:

# ls -lh /boot
total 18M
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Apr 17 04:53 boot -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33K Apr 12 01:46 config-2.6.5-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K Jun 13 10:47 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240K May 20 22:38 initrd-1024x768
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100K May 20 23:53 initrd-1280x1024
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3M Mar 1 05:57 initrd-2.6.3-gentoo-r1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1M Apr 11 18:40 initrd-2.6.5-gentoo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.4M Mar 1 05:46 kernel-2.6.3-gentoo-r1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.5M Apr 14 07:09 kernel-2.6.5-gentoo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.5M Apr 17 06:23 kernel-2.6.5-gentoo-r1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.5M Jun 13 04:55 kernel-2.6.5-gentoo-test
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.5M Jun 13 05:05 kernel-2.6.5-gentoo-win4lin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.4M Apr 14 05:59 kernel-2.6.5-mm1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 900K Apr 17 05:07 vmlinuz-2.4.22-xfs

Here's my grub.conf:

[Plastic]

Uh...did you mount your boot partition before you installed your kernel? I've made that mistake before...

[Hauser]

[Hauser]

OK, I've started all over again and now I'm with the new kernel. But still I don't know what went wrong, it just doesn't make sense!
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AMD Athlon XP 2600+; 512M RAM;
nVidia FX5700LE; Hitachi 120Gb
2.6.9-nitro4, reiser4, linux26-headers+nptl

Do I like to compile everything?
Positive definite!