"Grub loading ...Error 18" - HD's not accessible any more. (Kubuntu Karmic/ WinXP)

[Goh Lip]

On 04/08/2010 04:18 PM, Bas Roufs wrote:
> Hello Goh Lip
>
> Below I walk through your 2 messages of this morning.
>
>> Bas, good to hear you've got a good cdrom.
>> Let's get started. There's no need to use livecd. Just the grub-rescue-cd.
>
> OK.
>
>
>> [1]
>>> I send to you direct an iso file, named grubstand.iso. Burn iso image on
>>> cd and when started up, you'll get to a grub prompt. Always good to
>>> check with "search -f /vmlinuz" to get the partition of kubuntu. (note
>>> (hd1,1) will be sdb1).
>>
>> So when at grub prompt, type
>> search -f /vmlinuz
>
> This is the output I get:
>
> grub>  searh -f/vmlinuz
> error: unknown argument '-/' .
> grub>
>
> Yesterday I got exactly the same output. That's why, I have used the
> live CD to get info about the Kubuntu partitions.
>
>>
>> Note down the output, from your message using live cd, it should be either
>> hd1,6   or hd1,7
>> NOT hd1,8 as this will be swap
> Do I need to change something in this command: "searh -f/vmlinuz"  ..
> in order to get the kind of output you are pointing at? However it may
> be, we need to find a solution for this error problem before going on
> with the grub.cfg file.
>
> Thx., respecfully yours,
>
> Bas.
>
Bas, please watch for spelling and spaces..

search -f /vmlinuz

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