Chris Searle

When you install grub to debian and forget to run update-grub the first time before you reboot then there is no menu.lst file in /boot/grub so you boot to the grub shell

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If you have LILO on the MBR then the grub-install device is the disk e.g. /dev/hda - not the root partition.

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