grubing my debian box

[hugh@mjr.org (Hugh Saunders)]

A boot loader that reads filesystems?
i gotta be havin me summa that!

1. apt-get install grub
2. read some documentation [man grub, /usr/share/doc/grub]
3. made sure the necessary was in /boot/grub/ [stage1 ,stage1.5 stage2s]
4. wrote /boot/grub/menu.1st
5. grub-install /dev/ide/bus0..../disc

This all works but the menu does appear by default, each time i boot
have to do
	grub> root (hd0,3)
	grub> configfile /boot/grub/menu.1st

then can choose OS from menu, how does one pursuade grub to default to
menu rather than commandline?

thanks

hugh