When performing the genkernel install the instructions for grub configuration have a few ommisions that should be corrected. When the grub is installed by emerge grub the linuxrc file is not copied onto the boot directory where it is needed for the grub install to succede. If the emrege process scripts would put the file where it goes instead of only having it only in /usr/share/genkernel/generic/linuxrc. In addition the permissions for this file are set to 600 not 700 so the grub boot loader complains that it cannot execute the /linuxrc file. When I changed the permissions to 700 it booted just fine. Also missing from the grub section of the installation guide is the ramdisk_size parameter which is apparently required for the ramdisk to load properly. I am sure most people eventually find thier way around these omissions, but it would be nice if the guide were fixed, since everyone has to individually find their way around these frustrations.
Eh? Linuxrc is a file in the initrd for the kernel to boot; not something for GRUB... What installation instructions are we talking about, since the Gentoo Handbook, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9, says that you just need to add "init=/linuxrc" to the grub kernel line, not to actually put that file there.
Closing bug as INVALID; please see comment #1. If you still have any issues regarding this; please feel free to re-open this bug. Thanks!
