On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@(protected):
> On Thu, 8 May 2008 21:17:47 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> What would cause grub to sit there and wait for me to type in the
>> stuff that's in grub.conf anyway?
>
> You probably have an error in grub.conf/menu.lst, or you have both and
> GRUB is looking at the one you don't want it to (I think menu.lst takes
> priority). GRUB isn't particularly friendly when things go wrong, I've
> had it ignore a menu.lst it didn't like.
>
>
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> Neil Bothwick

Dirk & Neil,
 Thanks. Apparently grub wants menu.lst and the install didn't
create it. Strange. I created the link by hand and then the machine
booted fine.

 I appreciate the quick answer.

Cheers,
Mark
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