Debian 5.0 Grub issues I was having.

Debian showed grub was installed, but I still had to use a cd to boot to it, I was a bit confused. So what I did was

fdisk /dev/sda (boot drive)

p to show a list of partitions. I could see that my only partition was non-bootable,
a added boot options,
w save and exit. Machine booted right up. Now to fix my X issues.