[Deaf-lug] Re: ubuntu heron grub error 15

[JGJones]

Ahh the infamous Grub Error 18...

It's rather easy to fix no worries - it's mainly caused by you creating
a partition that is too big for a old PC to read (they like to have a
small boot partition). You don't get this error with newer PC's.

All you need to do is to create a small boot partition (20Mb is fine) at
the start of disk and put /boot in there.

That's it. And you do not need a Windows tool for this (I'll recommend
against it). You can use a normal Live CD - Ubuntu Live CD is fine and
use a partition manager to shuffle partitions around..

But frankly since if it's a fresh installation - just start again...

Wipe out all partitions and make a new boot partition at start of disk
as above and install /boot into that.

Like I said, it only affect older computers. I had this error on a old
Sony VAIO desktop PC - it have a 15Mb /boot partition at start and it's
fine now.

Cheers

John Savv...err...I mean Joseph Gwynne-Jones


On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 17:30 +0100, Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> sorry its grub error 18
> 
> soulution here
> 
> http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GRUB#Error_18
> 
> wtf?
> 
> Fintan
> 
> 2008/4/27 Fintan Gaughan <fgaughan at gmail.com>:
> > Liked ubuntu  that much that i decided to install on main computer (
> >  got 3 computers)
> >
> >  Although i had no probs duel booting i wiped main hard drive to
> >  install ubuntu only to get grub error 15.
> >
> >  Did a serch on google only to find that to down load windows software
> >  to fix the MBR or summat like that.
> >  fixed this issue when i was duel booting but now having the same prob
> >  when i am not duel booting why cant i just install ubuntu on main 1
> >  hard drive?
> >
> >  strange that, any ideas to what to do?
> >  I have either spen the time reading on google which if i can get the
> >  time or somone give me pointers to halve the time :-)
> >
> >
> >  Fintan
> >
> >
> >
> >
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