Unusual termianl prompt?

[Tim Alberts]

Ian Malone wrote ..
> info bash, shell variables, bourne shell variables (PS1 and PS2)/bash
> variables (PS3 and PS4).
> PS1 is probably the one you care about.  You've said on another
> thread that you're familiar with DOS, PS1 is roughly equivalent
> to DOS's 'PROMPT'.
> 
> It's odd that you get '-bash-3.00#' though, I've only seen that
> on systems at runlevel 1 (where I suppose .bashrc isn't run).
> It's possible the root acount on that machine is missing .bashrc
> or something.
> 
> Typically interesting per-user things are set in ~/.bash_profile
> 

That was the problem, I was missing the ./bashrc and ./bash_profile from the /root/.  I can only imagine why I didn't have those files.  Thank you everyone for your help.