I've installed gentoo, but I can't get grub to actually boot the system. This is my partition table:

hda1 NTFS winxp install
hda2 FAT32 shared and win apps
hda3 ext3 /
hda4 extended
hda5 swap linux swap
hda6 ext3 /var
hda7 ext3 /usr
hda8 ext3 /home

so I ran grub and at the grub prompt I ran these commands:

root (hd0,2)
setup (hd0)
quit

and edited /boot/grub/menu.lst so that it reads as so:

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

title=My example Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3

# Below needed only for people who dual-boot
title=Windows NT Workstation
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

When I boot the computer it says:

GRUB Loading stage1.5.

GRUB loading, please wait...

and it just sits there. The way the install file reads for Gentoo hda1 should be mounted as /boot, bu since I don't have my system setup that way I figured I could just do it my way, but evidently I was wrong.

I have also tried this with hda1 and hda3 marked as bootable.

The only thing I see that is wrong is this line:

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

Remove the (hd0,0) from the line. When you run ' setup (hd0) ', does it print out anything? Like ' install .....'