[SOLVED] Trying to install Gentoo on a 1st Generation aTV

[MorningWood]

Hey guys,
I'm kind of new here so please bear with me as I try to explain what I'm doing. Having always wanted to both try out Gentoo and get rid of the stock OS-X lite install on my apple tv, I set out to install Gentoo on my ATV following this guide. There are a few guides out there to help you along the way but it seems that most of the are out of date and this one is ultimately exactly what I am trying to accomplish (ultra lightweight install w/ XBMC) but I keep running into a problem.

I have been trying over and over...and over again to get this install to boot but I keep getting stuck at the step right before installing packages where it says "It should take a few seconds, then show Tux on the AppleTV. It will boot the atv-bootloader install, then it will find your grub's menu.lst and splice over to whatever kernel you have listed in there. If everything goes as planned, you should end up at a happy gentoo login prompt! Congratulations!"

It seems as if my atv-bootloader isn't splicing over to the compiled kernel.

I am following the directions word by word with the exception of:

• using http://atv-bootloader.googlecode.com/files/recovery-1.0.tar.gz instad of http://atv-bootloader.googlecode.com/files/recovery-0.6.tar.gz
  
  
• partitioning via parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary ext3 75M 38.9GB
  parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary linux-swap 38.9GB 40.0GB
  instead of
  parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary ext3 75M 16GB
  parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary linux-swap 16GB 17GB
  
  
• having removed kde and gnome from make.conf
  
• using this thread as a work around for my Glib 2.30 problem (merge =dev-libs/glib-2.28.8
  emerge pkgconfig
  emerge dev-libs/glib)
  
• fixing disappearing eth0 with the help of this thread (su
  cd /etc/init.d/
  ln -s net.lo net.eth0 then rc-update add net.eth0 boot)
  

/boot/grub menu.lst is shown as found so I am almost positive it has to do with the kernel configuration but what exactly I haven't the slightest clue.

I am using the latest stage3 and portage tars and keep getting stuck on the "jump to new kernel" message on atv-bootloader.
Any help would be appreciated seen as how I've spent nearly 2 weeks on this pulling out my hair. I just want it to boot.

I apologize for not including any logs but to be honest I have no idea where to look. I am doing all of this via telnet and without booting into the install, cannot even deploy telnet to get any details other than what is displayed on my TV.

E: Forgot to include that the kernel is gentoo-sources 3.0.6


EDIT: Solved! It was completely unrelated to Gentoo. Turns out that after using recovery-0.6, it booted up fine.

[MorningWood]

Including a crappy photo "screenshot" of said output.

http://i.imgur.com/vfeeq.jpg

[MorningWood]

So with the help of a friend, I got the system installed properly using a mixture of the guide listed above and using the symlinks steps (renamed of course) from this guide. Then we hosed it.

We set grub.conf to: