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[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

Hmm...in Jaunty, I believe it has a script that does just that? Install 
grub individually to each disk of the booting mirror.