Grub and reboot on failure?

[Avi Greenbury]

Jan Johansson wrote:
> I do not think it is after kernel start, I think it is before. The
> splash screen has a "Debian-operating system" blurb and what appears
> to be a stylized earth-horizin at the bottom.

That sounds a lot like it's trying to boot a Debian Squeeze install.
Is the image with the earth horizon this:

http://lazybrowndog.net/debian/squeeze/bugfixes/grub/grub-problems.png

If so, have you any idea why you might be booting into Debian's GRUB?
Might you be booting off the wrong disk or similar?

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Avi.