> I'm running grub 2 it seems
No. You are running grub 0.97-r9 (which is a legacy grub):
Don't be confused by the description in eix:
eix knows only one description per package (not one per version),
and it takes this description from the version with the highest
version number (which is grub 2).
> [I] sys-boot/grub
> Available versions: 0.92-r1 0.94-r1 0.96-r1 0.96-r2 ~0.96-r3 ~0.97
> 0.97-r2 0.97-r3 0.97-r4 0.97-r5 0.97-r6 ~0.97-r8 0.97-r9 **1.98 **9999
> {custom-cflags debug multislot ncurses netboot static truetype}
> Installed versions: 0.97-r9(06:16:18 AM 03/03/2010)(ncurses
> -custom-cflags -netboot -static)
> Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
> Description: GNU GRUB 2 boot loader
