argh, grub woes

[dep]

quoth Net Llama!:
| Just upgraded my wife's laptop from FC2 to FC3, and now when i boot I
| get dumped to a 'grub>' prompt that just sits there waiting for me to
| do something.

have you a grub menu? mine is /boot/grub/menu.lst and reads like this:


color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Linux
    kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=normal splash=silent 
acpi=off apic=off desktop resume=/dev/hda1 showopts
    initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: 
floppy###
title Floppy
    root (fd0)
    chainloader +1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: 
failsafe###
title Failsafe
    kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 showopts ide=nodma 
apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0  3
    initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Memory 
Test###
title Memory Test
    kernel (hd0,1)/boot/memtest.bin

i need to do a little work with it -- to get rid of the silly suse 
graphics at boot, for instance -- but it fundamentally works. when 
properly configured, it presents a text-mode menu.
-- 
dep

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