grub error 18

[Christopher Chan]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> Christopher Chan wrote:
>   
>> grub cannot even load stage1.5 when it is error 18...
>>     
>
> Why do you think it doesn't load stage 1.5? According to the grub manual
> [1], error 18 is a message from stage 1.5, so it should have loaded.
>   

In that case, then stage2 cannot be loaded.
> Other than that, I have read again the entire thread but I have no idea
> what is wrong on your system. However I can't imagine there is something
> wrong with one of the shutdown scripts because they usually don't touch
> the configuration files. At least it isn't a general problem of Jaunty.
>   
Have you seen the bugs reports that were turned into FAQS in launchpad?


> Otherwise many people should have seen that problem already. Maybe
> during one of the last upgrades the update-grub script was run and
> messed up your /boot/grub/menu.lst file for whatever reason? Could you
> post that file? Maybe then someone gets an idea what is wrong.
>   

I wonder how many people put Kubuntu Jaunty on a 6 year old or so box. 
Athlon XP at your service.