Grub /bzImage works but /boot/bzImage dont??

[Crazy]

I setup gentoo recently.. it works fine so far but weird thing is
that w/grub i have to make it /bzImage not /boot/bzImage ??

anywho just curious why, i followed the directions to the T.

thanks guys

[cyrillic]

The /boot part of the path only applies when your /boot partition is mounted.
When GRUB is loading the kernel, nothing has been mounted yet, and (hd0,0) is not called /boot yet.

[Naan Yaar]

You should have a symlink going from /boot/boot to /boot that is created by the baselayout emerge. This will let grub find /boot/<bzImage...> correctly. However, if you mounted /boot after emerging baselayout, the symlink will be in the /boot directory and will be "hidden" by the /boot partition that is subsequently mounted.

[bssteph]

Indeed. If you followed the install docs, which it sounds like you did, you made a separate /boot partition. We'll say it's hd0,0 (as grub sees it) for simplicity's sake. When you installed the kernel, you had /boot mounted, but since it is a separate partition, it was placed at the base of that partition (not inside a subdirectory). This is kind of confusing if you don't already get what I'm talking about.
bzImage isn't inside a subdirectory on that partition. If you wanted to for some reason, you could mount it as /asdf/ and you'd have a nice /asdf/bzImage

This is why /boot/bzImage isn't what goes in grub. You have this specific partition declared in grub, so when grub looks there, it doesn't have to go inside a /boot to find the kernel image.

Had you decided you didn't want a separate partition for /boot, you would configure grub to use your / partition, in which case it would have to go inside the /boot subdir to find the kernel.undefined

[dol-sen]

the simplest way around it is to not put the /boot in your kernel command line