Grub doesn't seem to be recognizing any of my partitions. When I open a grub shell in linux (I need to run off of the install cd) I am able to do the configuration. The root (hd1,2) in my case and so forth. However when I restart grub gives me an error at stage 1.5 stating that there are no recognizable partitions. When I boot grub from a boot disk it opens up fine, however when try to do "root (hd1,2)" it gives me an eror.

grub>root (hd1,2)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83

It gives the same error for every drive, with a different partition type where applicable. It seems to know that it's type is linux, just not ext3. Anyone know what's going on?

i'm not too sure how grub recognises partitions like that, but are you sure you compiled it in to your kernel? that's the only thing that *might* be related that i can think of. tried emerging grub again too? try an older version if you need to, make sure you reinstall the mbr after emerging too.

When I try older versions of grub, they don't seem to fully install, I need to manually move some files around based on errors, how do I know if it is compiled into the kernel? I assume emerge grub took care of that, but how do I do it for older versions?