Grub boot of new install.

["john@wexfordpress.com" <john@wexfordpress.com>]

I have built a Debian Etch partition from the buisness card cdr mainly
so I can use/upgrade programs that depend on Gnome libraries.  I tried
an Ubuntu install earlier.



Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and
select the first choice from the grub menu the OS goes into a loop. I
sign on and then it does another hard boot ultimaely preenting me the
rub menu again. .   But the single user boot seems to work. However it
is as advertised, just single user.

Here is the info from menu.lst:
title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-686
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-686
savedefault

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-686 (single-user
mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-686
savedefault

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

I am new to Debian/Ubuntu  so this confuses me.

John Culleton