Bug#546008: error: you need to load the kernel first

[Peter Verschoor]

Gentlemen:

    I ran into the same problem today (10/04/2010) doing a net install
of squeeze.  I found that if I brought up the editor, and deleted the
entire line "search --no-floppy ...." that I could then proceed to
boot the system.  The system is a Dell PowerEdge 2650, dual xeon with
a raid 5 array hanging off an Adaptec aacraid controller.  I solved my
problem by using dselect to purge grub-pc and installing grub-legacy.

    Hope this helps.

Pete