grub error 18

[Christopher Chan]

Goh Lip wrote:
> Christopher Chan wrote:
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>> Yes, which is why I am getting very cross now. After booting into the 
>> LiveCD, I run konsole, sudo -i, grub, root(hd0,0), setup(hd0), quit, 
>> reboot. The installed Jaunty boots up just fine. After a shutdown...I am 
>> ready to get a sledgehammer and smash something up. Something is messing 
>> around with grub during shutdown.
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> Try this ........
> instead of root (hd0,0)
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> use root (hd0,x)
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> check what the x is by
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> sudo fdisk -lu
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> as usual, remember in grub legacy, (hd0,x) is sda(x+1).
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> then setup (hd0)
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I am sorry, I forgot to tell you that the installation choice during 
partitioning was: Wipe out everything and install Kubuntu. Guess how 
many partitions it creates?


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>> The thing is though that I had no problems after initial installation. I 
>> did not have to deal with 'grub error 18' until after I updated the 
>> packages.
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> If there are many cases similar problem of different installations (you 
> installed for other people), I think during your installation, you may 
> not have installed grub to mbr. That is why after shutdown, it does not 
> boot.
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> Setting root (hd0,0) is usually wrong, it may work sometimes when it is 
> the ONLY OS in the computer or there is no partitioning.
>   

Yawn. Telling grub to treat the root partition (no separate boot 
partition possible with the LiveCD installer) as the root device is 
usually wrong now eh? Oh guess what? Kubuntu Jaunty is the ONLY 
operating system installed.


> If this fails, you can use your sledgehammer.
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>   


On the guy who added the mess up grub stuff.