Grub not booting on fresh install of gentoo 2004.3

Ok I could really use some help.... I have never used linux before and I
installed gentoo from a stage one last night and the first part of today....
Everything went really well with the installation no evers everything
working like it was suppose to. Then I get to the part of the install when I
must create a grub.conf file so that it will boot. This is where I have ran
into a problem and need some help.

Here is my hardware setup as it pertains to booting,

One WD Raptor 10,000 RPM drive on a Promise 20378 RAID controller.

I had to load the module for the promise controller manually after booting
from the live cd. however it then works just fine I have created the
filesystem on it and everything. I compilied support the controller in my
Kernel so I should not have any issues there.

WD Raptor is /dev/sda

Partitions are as follows,

/dev/sda1 = boot partition ext2fs mounted at /boot 32MB size
/dev/sda2=swap partition 512MB size
/dev/sda3=linux root partition. ext3fs Mounted on / Size= all space left.

I created a /boot/grub/grub.conf and tried to build one from scratch... I
used sd0,0 for my location. This is where I need the help. I have my hard
drive setup as listed above but cannot figure out what to put in the grub
file... Can someone tell me based on the information here what my grub file
should look like? This is the only drive I have and I am not duel booting or
anything just tired of windows not working and am switching to linux. So
when I did this and saved the file and installed it to the MBR and rebooted
the machine it comes to a blank black screen with a blinking cursor.. Not
grub information at all on the screen...

Please help me and tell what I need to do to fix this! (Let me know if you
need more information then I have given)

Thanks,

~wd0mkr

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