Gentoo LiveCD Install Done Correctly? No Grub Menu

[md5fungi]

Alright so I use Arch Linux normally, and I bought a laptop which came with Windows Vista and I wish to dual boot it with Gentoo. I'm pretty sure I did the partitioning correctly; When I got to the Gentoo LiveCD the installer would crash at random times so I decided that instead I would mount the partitions I reserved for Gentoo to directories and just copy the entire filesystem over to my new partitions.

I edited my grub.conf file as such:


default 0
timeout 30

title Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda7 udev
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5


title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1


my /boot is partitioned to /dev/sda5
swap is /dev/sda6
/ is /dev/sda7
/home is /dev/sda8

I also changed the permissions of /boot to match the permissions on the LiveCD and made a symbolic link to menu.lst

When I start my computer the grub menu doesn't load; It goes straight to Windows Vista.

Any ideas? Maybe there is additionally configuration I should have done because of the act of merely copying over the entire filesystem.

[krinn]

if you don't have any grubs errors... it could just be that grub isn't install at all or you install it in a non-bootable partition or after one that is already bootable...

try install grub in mbr so it will goes before vista bootstrap

[md5fungi]

thanks, installing it to the MBR worked.