GRUB 2.0 not loading config file

[Ortwin Glück]

Hi,

Symptoms:
- GRUB 2.0 starts in command-line mode. The boot menu is not loaded.
- on the command-line: configfile /boot/grub/grub.cfg properly loads the config 
file, surprisingly.
- GRUB 0.9 works fine.

HW: Samsung laptop that I boot in legacy (non-EFI) mode. Have not tried EFI.

grub-install creates the image like so:
/usr/bin/grub2-mkimage -d /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc -O i386-pc 
--output=/boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img --prefix=(,gpt1)/boot/grub biosdisk ext2 
part_gpt


Partition tables:
MBR:
Disk /dev/sda: 126.0 GB, 126035288064 bytes, 246162672 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: 0x3eb19e87

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1   246162671   123081335+  ee  GPT


GPT:
Disk /dev/sda: 246162672 sectors, 117.4 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 6A7696BC-D860-44B9-87E9-6AAECD6C9E4F
Partition table holds up to 128 entries 

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 246162638 

Partitions will be aligned on 2-sector boundaries 

Total free space is 0 sectors (0 bytes) 



Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name 

   1            2048       246162638   117.4 GiB   8300  primary 

   2              34            2047   1007.0 KiB  EF02  BIOS boot partition


Any ideas?

Ortwin