GRUB Error (wrong 'root=' format)

[sentralorigin]

I am on my last step to installing Gentoo, but I get a GRUB error when I try to boot:

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)

This is what my current /boot/grub/grub.conf looks like:

default 0
timeout 2
title=Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/linux-2.6.17.13 root=/dev/hda3

Yes I made sure that was the correct kernel name in the correct directory. Partition 1 is my boot, 2 is my swap, and 3 is my root. I installed GRUB to partition 1 where the /boot is. I formatted corectly and everything. I did this before, and I remember getting this very same error, but I don't remember what I did to GRUB to fix it. I didn't make changes to anything else, I think.

[sentralorigin]

This is my /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0

[devils casper]

whats in device.map file?

[sentralorigin]

/boot/grub/device.map

(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda

[gruven]

Did you compile the file system into the kernel or as modules? Did you use one of the automated installers or install it yourself on the command line following the handbook?

It looks to me that either you don't have your file systems compiled into your kernel, or that your mapping of the filesystems is wrong.

[sentralorigin]

I used *'s, not the M so not modules but compiled into the kernel. I spent several days trying to install it manually and I followed all the directions exactly in the handbook.

[sentralorigin]

So how can I make it redirect properly?

[gruven]

Another possiblility is that you didn't add the correct chipset drivers in the kernel. That would be what I looked for next, since it looks as if your mapping is correct, and you built the filesystems into the kernel.