> try again tomorrow night.  Anyone have any ideas on what is going on?  I
> am pretty sure that wiping out the MBR properly (any tools to do this
> other than a windows boot disk and running fdisk /mbr?) or a low level
> format of the drive (in case it's reporting back information back to the
> BIOS or OS) would do the trick, but would welcome a simpler way :)

Just FYI a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 seemed to have
done the trick.  Did that and the 'file not found' errors from grub when
I was doing the 'setup (hd0)' step went away.  Still have to reboot and
see if it's actually booting, but I have high hopes :)

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