GRUB-1.96 won't boot, boots into rescue prompt

[Jelle Geerts]

Hello,

After installing Gentoo + GRUB 1.96 and rebooting; I get a
"grub rescue>" prompt. I've ran `grub-install /dev/sda' and
`update-grub'.

I had to modify `/etc/grub.d/10_linux' in order to let it find
`/boot/kernel-2.6.23-gentoo-r9'. I don't think that this should
matter since `update-grub' displayed a message that Linux was
found (and the exact kernel filename matched the one I wanted).

Now some debugging information. In the "grub rescue>" prompt,
`insmod normal' resulted in `error: unknown device'.

`set' returned:
prefix=(hd0,2)/boot/grub
root=hd0,2

In Linux, my /dev/sda1 is swap and /dev/sda2 is the Linux ext3
partition.

Please CC me in responses.

Thanks in advance,
Jelle Geerts