can't boot into kubuntu 9.10 after installation

[Paul Ezust]

This is a peculiar problem (to me at least).
I spent a couple of days trying to install various recent Debian releases
... each one left me with an unusable system for one reason or another.
So I decided to try kubuntu 9.10.
The installation proceeded with no apparent problems.
When I removed the installation CD and tried to boot from the HD, I got a
grub menu containing a bunch of debian choices - but no kubuntu choices.
Clearly I was looking at the wrong boot loader because I had told the
kubuntu installer to reformat the entire 750GB drive and just make a single
partition.
(I should add that when I was fighting with Debian I had manually specified
my own partition sizes but by this time I was just trying to get a simple
install so that I could get back to work.)

So, needless to say, there was some residue left over from my Debian
attempts but not enough to actually complete a boot.
I have been futzing around for several hours trying to find my way into
kubuntu.
I actually succeeded once by deleting a couple of symlinks to vmlinuz and
vmlinuz.old that I found in a bizarro  "/" directory.
The next reboot got me into kubuntu where I happily started setting things
up.
After manually setting my ip address, in the network config program, I
noticed that ifconfig was still holding onto the one that dhcp supplied so I
thought I would try rebooting.
Bad idea!
The reboot put me back into the debian grub list and now I can't get past
it.

When I go into a maintenance mode, I only see about 40gb of disk (with df).

How can I eliminate those vestiges of debian so that I can boot into
kubuntu?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

P.E.
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