grub error 18

[David Kuntadi]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> Well, the rational is rather simple. grub stage2 has the ability to walk
> through the filesystem to look for files and to cat them. So really, the
> menu file should be the last thing that makes trouble for grub but since
> Gene does a chattr +i I might just try that although I am of the opinion
> that +i really just messes up whatever is trying to reinstall grub
> during shutdown and so it ends up NOT  reinstalling grub.

I think you should give up the "during shutdown" concept. I have
explained (and also Derek Broughton) that the grub updated during
package upgrade, not during shutdown.

The chatttr +i would make you use old kernel, when there is a kernel
update. But to check the /boot/gurb/menu.lst before and after upgrade
is very simple. Also ls -n /dev/disk/by-uuid  is very simple as well.

I am not sure why you would not do it........ Oooh, I understand, it
is shutdown script !!!!! :)

DK