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[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu)
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
>> Welcome to Ubuntu. I love the Jaunty stunt. Reboot and you get 'grub
>> error 18' and then you have to boot up with the CD, get a shell, rerun
>> grub setup and then get back in.
>
> Must be your pet problem.
> Sounds like a BIOS that swaps the order of the hard disks. Am I correct in
> assuming that you have more than one hard disk? Should be fixable if you
> fiddle a bit with device.map. Or use UUID's, they work just as good as the
> (hd0,0) notation.

Talking about pet problems, my pet peeve is that grub is only
installed on one HDD. It seems that if I have two HDD and an OS
installed on each, I should be able to boot if either HDD is still
running. This would also solve this particular problem of BIOS switch
HDDs around, if UUIDs are used.

> But srsly. You haven't broken a system until you have tried Gentoo. All
> your 'buntu problems are pale in comparison.

Don't you mean GeNToo? ;)
  http://www.gentooexperimental.org/nt/
Just finding a rescue cd for GeNToo is not for the faint of heart. ;)

( Then again if you actually *want* Gentoo on a NT kernel there is GentooCygwin
  http://gentoocygwin.sourceforge.net/ )

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted