Thank you all for your gracious help. You were right. The default entry in grub (modified in /etc/default/grub and then running upgrade-grub) had shifted down one entry to the single user mode entry.
restoring the correct default entry in /etc/default/grub and running upgrade-grub solved my problem. Thank you all again!!! Mitchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

