In article <cd6e33e.0309010312.78b17192@posting.google.com> , Jan wrote:
> ditzian@alltel.net (Jan) wrote in message news:<cd6e33e.0308291504.1382d69f@posting.google.c om>...
>> Whyld-Chyld <test@example.com> wrote in message news:<JLJ3b.21718$Ad4.9032437@news3.news.adelphia. net>...
>> > Jan wrote:
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>
> If this reply is a dupe, please excuse me. I am having problems both
> with Gentoo and with my newsposting.
>
> I followed the directions to get back to hdc, and, after rerunning
> genkernel and make dep operations, which took over eight hours, things
> appeared to be OK. I
> generated one bad boot floppy disk, so I generated another that had no
> error message. Then I closed down Gentoo and restarted with the boot
> floppy in the drive, and got a CRC error. I got back to Gentoo with
> the
> same procedure, but I cannot find the kernel. If I complete the chroot
> command and try to do the dd command, it says that I do not have the
> kernel. If I do a ls in /boot, it returns nothing.
>
> Do I have to repeat the eight-hour build each time I try to generate a
> Lilo disk?
>
> Jan

Of course not.

Actually, your /boot just isn't mounted.

If fstab is set up properly, you can just do: mount /boot
Otherwise, you'll need to specify the partition in the mount command.

(Eight hours? Ouch. Slow box... :/)

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