grub error 18

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 21 September 2009, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
>David Kuntadi wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Clay Weber <claydoh at midmaine.com> wrote:
>>> A lot of us do, my laptop is 6 years old, for one. Runs nicely as my
>>> daily machine with Jaunty
>>>
>>> My only other thought is to save a copy of your menu.list, reboot, and
>>> when you have to boot from the livecd, look at the menu.list before you
>>> repair it to see what the differences between the 2 are.
>>
>> That is what I have suggested before, but looks like he will not do it.
>
>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.
>
IIRC, that did preserve my sanity by allowing it to reboot normally with 
nothing more strenuous than cycling the power switch to the on position.

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