grub error 18

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Christopher Chan wrote:
> Goh Lip wrote:
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>> Christopher Chan wrote:
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>>>> Ah, let's not take things too seriously.
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>>>> May you be happy and prosper.
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>>> Yeah, I understand that sometime it is kinda hard to imagine what the 
>>> problem a person might be having and when something else 'fixes' the 
>>> problem, you'd rather not bother anymore.
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>>>       
>> You fixed the problem?
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>
> The weekend is only three days away.
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>   

Woohoo, now that I have that annoying logout problem out of the way, it 
is back to grub.


To conclude, it appears that I will have just reinstall and put /boot in 
its own partition. I don't know what the Linux kernel does but after it 
loads up once, all subsequent warm reboots will not suffer from the 
problem. Once you shutdown the machine, that is it. grub 1.5 error 18. 
So I take it all back about something reinstalling grub at shutdown time.


In case Goh Lip is wondering whether this old man decided to give grub2 
a spin, the answer is yes I did. It appears that Goh Lip thinks way too 
highly of grub2 or at least of the version that comes with Jaunty 
repository. grub2 could not get past the problem too. I get 'out of 
disk' error and I am dropped into the grub recovery console. In case you 
are wondering, lsmod says pc and ext2 are loaded. So much for grub2.


Time to look at any possible ext3 resizing solutions before going 
through a complete reinstall.