[gentoo-user] Having trouble installing grub on second disk

Hello,

I wonder if some wise person here can give me some suggestion on how to
solve this problem.

I have Gentoo (2005.0) installed on my master primary device, and I 
am trying to create a minimal Linux system on a new disk, my slave 
primary device.

So, I partition and make a 32M ext2 file system, make the appropriate
directories and devices, install busybox and other odds and ends. Then I
copy over the kernel from my Gentoo system (same hardware, so the same
kernel).

Finally I install grub on the slave primary device, and set up my
grub.conf like so:

  default 0
  timeout 10

  title=minimal linux on slave primary device
  root (hd1,0)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1

root (hd1,0) should be the first partition on my slave primary device

/boot/vmlinuz is indeed my kernel (I didn't bother with a separate 
boot partition )

finally root=/dev/hdb1 tells grub that the root is on the first
partition of my slave primary device

I test by rebooting and entering my bios settings, and then i set the
boot device to hd1 instead of hd0. Save and exit, and grub tells me
"Error 15: File not found".

It doesn't tell me which file isn't found, but I've learned that this
usually means the kernel. So I double and triple check the spelling and
the location. It's right, unless I'm going blind.

As an experiment, I added these lines to grub.conf on hda, so that I
could use grub on hda but boot from my kernel and root on hdb:

  title=minimal linux on slave primary device
  root (hd1,0)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1

this worked, which perhaps suggests that my grub setup on hdb is faulty.
So I reinstalled grub on hdb, but it still fails with the same error.

Lastly the grub install reported no errors.

Any suggestions?

Sincerely,
Michael Shiloh
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