trying to install, having grub problems.

I have run a ground installation of gentoo and the instructions were great!
:)
However, one place where they seem to get a little confusing is the grub
instructions.  I understand the drive numbering convention.  What I want to
do is to make a boot floppy.  I followed the instructions and did the
following commands:
mke2fs /dev/fd0
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mkdir -p /mnt/floppy/boot/grub
cp /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage1 /mnt/floppy/boot/grub
cp /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage2 /mnt/floppy/boot/grub

grub
>root (fd0)
>setup (fd0)
>quit

upon reboot I get a grub prompt.  no splash screen, no menu.  I created a
grub.conf and ln -s it to menu.lst.  my config is as such:

default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd1,)
kernel /boot/bzImage

title=Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

What am I missing here?

Thanks,

Steve W.