Installing 2004.0 on IBM xSeries 365

[CPS]

Hello,

I'm trying to install Gentoo 2004.0 on an IBM xSeries 365 using the minimal install disk. Everything was going REALLY smoothly up until when I try to install grub. Here's a list of steps I'm doing after a boot from the live CD ....

# Installing the Fusion MPT modules for my RAID controller
modprobe mptbase
modprobe mptscsih

# Mounting my file systems
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc

# chrooting into my install area & setting up my environment
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile

# Installing grub
emerge --usepkg grub
grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/sda

... and after that here's the error I get:

Could not find device for /boot/boot: Not found or not a block device.

I do have a seperate /boot partition and I'm following the directions as given in the handbook. I also tried LILO but I get a similar error.

Any ideas on how to fix?

Thanks,
Chris

[guard0]

that to me looks like the old missing symlink..

on your /boot partition, there should be a symlink 'boot' that links to the parent directory..
that symlink would be /boot/boot

mount /boot, do ls -l and see if that symlink is present, if it isnt, then grub will not install or work correctly..

[CPS]

that to me looks like the old missing symlink..

on your /boot partition, there should be a symlink 'boot' that links to the parent directory..
that symlink would be /boot/boot

mount /boot, do ls -l and see if that symlink is present, if it isnt, then grub will not install or work correctly..

Yes, it's there:

livecd grub # cd /boot
livecd boot # ls -l
total 2525
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 806982 Apr 7 2004 System.map-2.6.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Apr 5 11:22 boot -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Apr 7 2004 boot.0800
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21852 Apr 7 2004 config-2.6.4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 6 10:02 grub
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Apr 5 11:15 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1725663 Apr 7 2004 vmlinuz-2.6.4