[gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time

[Jon M <gentoo@net-xero.net>]

Hey everyone,

I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux.  For some reason I seem to be 
struggling to get it booted after installing.  Basically my setup is I 
have 3 partitions as follows: /dev/hda1 (32MB EXT3) used as /boot. 
/dev/hda2 (512MB) for swap, and the rest is on /dev/hda3 (ReiserFS).

The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows:

default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3

Everything look normal so far?  Well when I reboot, and select Gentoo on 
the GRUB list, it starts to load and then I get the following error:

VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
unknown-block(0,0)


Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks in 
advance!
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