squeeze install: Gave up waiting for root devices

[brownh <brownh@historicalMaterialism.info>]

I'm doing a fresh squeeze install from USB key, and it installs grub
0.97 and kernel 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem. A single SATA drive. Boot hangs
with  

     Waiting for root filesystem...
     Gave up waiting for root device.
     ...
     
I edited grub kernel line to add rootdelay=5, which didn't help.

I tried (initramfs) echo $Root, and nothing was returned. When I did
  (initramfs) cat /proc/cmdline, I get:
  root=UUID=875fe3ac-ba94-41f8-9ace-23e7e3a0328b ro VGA=773

The grub configuration is:

    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz/2.6.26-2-686-bigmem root=UUID=... ro vga=773
    initrd /initred.img-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem

I assume that the UUID assigned to my hard disk does not match the
kernel line in GRUB2. Is there any way to find out what the assigned
ID numbers are?

Haines Brown