fsck!

awww, sad panda...

Well, I guess it could have been worse. Grub complained about the fomat of my kernel becuase it was a dead symlink. It seems that gentoo or kernel.org (not sure which) decided to change the place make dumps its bzImage:

blacknode linux # ls -al arch/i386/boot/bzImage
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 11 01:58 arch/i386/boot/bzImage -> ../../x86/boot/bzImage
blacknode linux # file arch/i386/boot/bzImage
arch/i386/boot/bzImage: symbolic link to `../../x86/boot/bzImage'
blacknode linux # file arch/x86/boot/bzImage
arch/x86/boot/bzImage: Linux kernel x86 boot executable RO-rootFS, root_dev 0x301, swap_dev 0x2, Normal VGA

Anyway, I had to get the dc involved, to manually select the old kernel in grub. Probably going to wait till shift change to attempt another reboot.