grub error 18

[Clay Weber]

On Sunday 20 September 2009 01:04:50 pm Goh Lip wrote:
> Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> >> I take it that you now have no problem booting after the root...setup...
> >> from the livecd.
> >
> > Yup.
> >
> >> Grub legacy have precisely some problems not only with LBA cylinder but
> >> also with newer bios. Instead of trying to fix your grub, I suggest you
> >> convert your grub legacy to grub2. After all, karmic will default to
> >> grub2. sudo apt-get install grub-pc
> >
> > the weird grub file somehow gives me the impression that grub2 is
> > installed? What grub does the LiveCD for Jaunty use?
> 
> Livecd? I don't know without popping in the livecd. you can check by
> going to /boot/grub/  and see if there is menu.lst or grub.cfg, maybe
> both. But it doesn't really matter, right? Livecd grub is always quite
> empty, just to start up the cd. The more important point is your
> installed jaunty partition. If you have meaningful entries in grub.cfg,
> then it is installed. There should also be meaningful entries in
> menu.lst whether grub2 is installed or not.
> 
> If you have installed grub2, you can always reinstall if you did not
> follow up on the instructions where it wasn't installed to mbr giving
> rise to your problem. If it wasn't installed, okay, install it.
> 
> goh lip
> 
jaunty uses 'regular' grub.

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GRUB
http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7977401
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