grub cannot find bzImage on /boot partition

[mrt76]

When I choose Gentoo in Grub, it says it cannot find bzImage. I booted from the install cd to check the contents of my /boot partition. I created a /mnt/temp directory and mounted hda3 (my /boot part.) to it. When I go into /mnt/temp, I see boot, grub, and lost+found. When I go into the boot folder, I see boot, grub, and lost+found again. It goes on like this infinately. I checked the boot directory on my root partition, but there is no bzImage there either. Am I SOL or what?

[delta407]

Okay, first off, there's a symlink in /boot that points back to /boot. Thus, you can say /boot/boot/boot/boot/grub, and it will point to /boot/grub. This is useful when specifying paths in GRUB, so you can say (hd0,3)/boot/bzImage instead of (hd0,3)/bzImage... it's just a human nicety.

Okay... to fix your problem, make sure you copied the kernel out of /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage and to your /boot partition. Then, make sure that your "kernel" line in /boot/grub/menu.lst is pointing to the right location.

[fghellar]

Another possible cause is that you forgot to mount your /boot partition before copying bzImage there. To check, unmount /boot (leaving / mounted) and see if the /boot/bzImage file is there. If yes, move it to /, mount /boot again and move it back to /boot.
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[mrt76]

Yes, I think I just forgot copy it over. Operator Error - go figure. Thank you for the quick replies.