On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:49:44PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: [snip] > I don't recall an offer from the installer to try installing grub2. > Is there an incantation I'm not aware of that makes that possible? > If you boot the debian install cd and choose rescue mode you can install grub2 using apt-get or aptitude. You should have a working network connection so it can fetch the packages.