Sytems halts while booting kernel at ACPI line

[Volchok]

I am a first time installer of gentoo. My system loads kernel from grub successfuly after initial install, loads the kernel and then stops with text displaying BIOS memory addresses and below a statement regarding the ACPI address. The last line includes my mainbord type, ASUS P4T533, a memory address, then MSFT (presumably for microsoft) and I think ACPI after that. It just hangs there. I tried recompiling the kernel including as many appropriate options related to ACPI. After changing the settings under menuconfig i ran:
- make && make module_install
- cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r1
- cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.8-gentoo-r1

is this the correct way to re-compile a kernel?

I also tried to emerge acpi, after which i did:
-rc-update add acpi default
which resulted in an error stating could not find
- /etc/init.d/acpi

the last thing i've tried is adding acpi to the use= line in make.conf
by doing this:
- use=acpi
- unset use
- emerge shadow

is this the correct way to update the use= line?

some of the descriptions aren't as accurate as possible because i had to do it from memory. Postiong this message in windows.

i am going to reisntall the whole thing again soo, im waaaay too frustrated.

THANKS!!!!
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P4 2.53 ASUS P4T533 512Mb 1066mhz RAMBUS 36 Gb U320 SCSI 120x2 ATA,

[Jarhead]

Have you emerged acpid? That is what you need to add to rc-update. Also, I noticed that you wrote "make && make module_install..." Did you mean "make && make modules_install?" Just a few observations.. HTH
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[Volchok]

yes i did mean modules_install, a typo.

i just ran emerge acpid
then, rc-update add acpid default and that worked. on reboot still hangs in same place. I do no know if it is beacuse of the ACPI, thats just whats on screen when it stops. is there any way to echo or find in log what is stopping it from booting all the way?

also, did i do the other thigs like update kernel correctly???
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P4 2.53 ASUS P4T533 512Mb 1066mhz RAMBUS 36 Gb U320 SCSI 120x2 ATA,

[Jarhead]