[COLUG] Odd boot-time problem.

[Pat Collins]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:18:40 -0500, William Yang <wyang at gcfn.net> wrote :

> I am playing with a Dell Optiplex 320 PC, which I'm trying to re-image into 
> a Gentoo linux box.  I'm trying to use Gentoo's automatic hardware 
> discovery, which worked on the LiveCD I used to install the OS from.
> 
> Grub appears to be installed (I get the grub menu) but it fails when I 
> select any OS image, including memtest86 which I copied from the LiveCD. 
> The system shows the kernel line, gives addresses in brackets, and stops 
> before listing the initrd or doing anythign else.
> 

Did you use genkernel to build your kernel? Could you have forgotten to add
support for the filesystem that the initrd is on?

I would build for that specific machine. 

Pat