Grub2 Doesn't Boot

[Roger]

I've compiled & installed grub2 from svn.
(ie. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252769)

grub-setup does seem to work, but I see no (stdout) output after
execution and:

# echo $?
0

On cold boot, grub command line boots but states something to the effect
device not found.

The /boot/grub/grub.cfg was automatically configured using
grub-mkconfig.

The partition is ext3.


Did I miss a step??


Additionally, how can I use the command line grub to troubleshoot
booting?  Some example entries and I prefer the second format:

menuentry "GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.28-gentooY" {
        set root=(hd0,2)
        search --fs-uuid --set ceb23707-ea19-4720-938e-5d1c12e62b43
        linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentooY root=/dev/sda2 ro  
}


menuentry "Gentoo" {
   set root=(hd0,2)
   linux   /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 resume2=swap:/dev/sda1
video=uvesafb:off 
}


-- 
Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org