Cant boot Gentoo: Error 15: File not found

[necromancer]

As I thought everything had gone smooth I get following message trying to boot:

root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda4

Error 15: File not found

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I got following partition setup:

hda1 Windows Fat16/32
hda2 boot ext3
hda3 swap
hda4 / ext3

[therobot]

is bzImage in /boot?

[Naan Yaar]

You may have not mounted boot before copying bzImage. If this is the case, you can still boot from the compiled kernel by doing:

[necromancer]

Changed the "kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda4 " to "kernel (hd0,3)/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda4 " in Grub, but it did not help. same error 15 and File not found.

Therobot wrote:
is bzImage in /boot?

I am not sure. Would bzImage be in /boot if I did:
#mv /boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage.orig
#cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/bzImage /boot
?

It is possible that I forgot those lines, or one of them.

Do I have to start from scratch?

[pjp]

You have to mount boot before you can put anything in it.
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[necromancer]

Then maybe I missed the "#mount /dev hda2 /mnt/gentoo/boot" -line, but I did not get any errors during installation untill booting with Grub.

[delta407]

Mounting /boot applies both during and after the installation process. It is left unmounted by default... so, yeah.
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[grendel]

I had this same problem.
I have hda1 mounted as /boot
I have hda2 as a swap
I have hda3 as the root partition (/)
But it seems that no matter what I did
grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)

and in my menu.lst
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3

This would not work.

Then I noticed that when I ran 'setup (hd0)' line it kept saying it found the stage1 in /grub so then I changed to
kernel /grub/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
and copied bzImage to /boot/grub and that worked.
Hope this helps!