GRUB + new kernel.. how?

[vash]

Yesterday, I posted a problem with my hardware in relation to the auto detection hanging when scanning my PCI. Found out its just the motherboard. Swapped the motherboards and I'm on Gentoo now, posting via Galeon.

Here is my next problem, I can't get the sound output loud enough using sound driver I compiled into the kernel (for SBLive!). When I launch XMMS, the sound is there, but quite quiet.

Doing some more searching, I find ALSA and go ahead and try that -- that did not work as posted in the desktop guide. Reading further into the threads, someone mentioned do not add support for the specific card in the kernel compile, just have sound support via a module.

So, I recompile the kernel, named it bzImage (my base kernel is base-kernel) and place it into the /boot folder. Low and behold, the original bzImage isn't there, neither is my other kernel file.

I'm very new to GRUB, I am much more used to LILO and how it handles the new kernel (edit lilo.conf and rerun lilo to pickup the new settings). How do I get GRUB to register the new kernel I made?

vash

[pjp]

/boot is nout mounted by default. You need to manually 'mount /boot' then copy your kernel over.
Also, you might want to add a 2nd entry for your currently working kernel just in case something
goes wrong.

Example:

[kybber]