Originally Posted by quiet_voice
I had a clue that the reason for the prompt was that it couldn't find the menu.lst file. I double checked and it is there as expected. I did some further investigation and found that grub could see all the files in the root of my c: drive but not in any of the sub directories. So 'find /boot/grub/menu.lst' or 'find /boot/memdisk' returns file not found. If I move all the files into the root of the c: drive and modify the menu.lst file accordingly then I can sucessfully boot by using 'configfile (hd0,0)/menu.lst'. So I am closer than I was before, but.... how do I either make grub understand sub directories or change the path it looks for the default config file. Obviously the latter is a second best option.