i installed gentoo on my laptop. I can use grub from the live cd but not from the installlation. When i try to setup grub from the installation i get the following:

grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists...yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists...yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists...yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 22 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Segmentation fault

When i restart the boot loader just freezes and says Stage 1_5 on the screen. Any suggestions.

Make sure you have the latest version of grub installed, and try it again. I'm not terribly familiar with grub, but it looks like the grub executable crashes before it finishes its work.

i just unmerged and remerged it.

I also know very little about grub but i think this could be related to the fact that grub install doesn't work.

grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc does not have any coresponding BIOS drive.

i'm using amd64 if that matters. I just googled it and found that i might need to install the 32-bit libs. So i'm trying that.