Matthew Martin enlightened us with:
> I forgot to let you know I'm a newbie.

In that case: please don't top-post. Remove the quoted text that you
do not directly refer to, and post your reaction below that, just as I
did now.

> Could you translate that a little. I know about chroot. but
> dropping the kernel I assume you talking about.

No, he said:

>> Sounds like another genkernel screwup ... I say drop it

Which means dropping genkernel.

>> and do the make menuconfig yourself. Avoiding the use of an initrd
>> eliminates one point

Which means do the kernel configuration & building yourself. Easy
enough, and a 2.6 kernel (gentoo-dev-sources) is even easier than a
2.4 (gentoo-sources) kernel.

Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?