[GRLUG] gentoo install

[detrix42 at gmail.com]

Well I got on the gentoo irc, and got some help. It was a simple error.
 When I compiled the kernel, I did not enable the ext4 filesystem support.
oops. anyways, now to get a desktop manager.

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 10:21 AM, detrix42 at gmail.com <detrix42 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone. last week I decided to try Gentoo.  I followed the handbook,
> compiled a kernel, but now I need to set up grub2 to find it. How do I do
> that?  I have Linux Mint currently installed, which has the grub2.  I have
> tried to add the gentoo, but I think I am missing something, like the
> initramfs.  I am rechecking the handbook. Ok I did not compile to use the
> initramfs, and I almost got it to work. It started booting then errors with
> something like:
>
> no filesystem can mount root
>
> root is ext4. So now I am at a loss to what to do.
>
> detrix
>
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