grub error 18

[Christopher Chan]

David Kuntadi wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>   
>> The MBR. hd0. First sector of the disk. Happy?
>>
>> Now, are you implying that grub is reinstalled each time the thing is
>> shutdown and so this information is saved somewhere?
>>     
>
> The grub is not reinstalled but bios might changed. The error 18
> indicate that the kernel is located at position beyond the bios.
> Previously I sometime face this problem but it was when the fstab do
> not use uuid for the partition.
>   

grub cannot even load stage1.5 when it is error 18...i don't think it is 
anything to do with the location of the kernel.


> So, if what you inform is accurate, that might be some uuid change in
> the disk so that the bios could not find the partition. Please check
> if that is the case.
>   

Nice, more circles. I think I know the best solution. Ditch Jaunty and 
install Intrepid. Or maybe get Windows XP installed and save Ubuntu some 
more embarrassment. If only wine 1.0 was part of RHEL, I'd just install 
Centos and forget this mess.