I attempted to manually select the root drive however grub tells me the drive does not exist.
here's some output I grabbed after booting from a liveCD
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fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000510bf
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 411647 204800 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 411648 4540415 2064384 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 4540416 3907028991 1951244288 83 Linux
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blkid
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="4075374b-1487-4d81-85e4-f5bc82554775" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda2: UUID="e43a0737-231f-4464-97e4-f465b0a8c169" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda3: UUID="fa691b6e-4acf-4412-8d7b-6a91b765eff4" TYPE="ext4"
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cat /mnt/mount/grub/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
# initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Amahi6 (2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686.PAE)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686.PAE ro root=UUID=fa691b6e-4acf-4412-8d7b-6a91b765eff4 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686.PAE.img
clearly a linux n00b