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Hi guys, its been a while I havent checked around Here's my issue, I always used Lilo (3-4 years) and never had a problem. Now I decided to try Ubuntu ...
  1. 10-11-2005 #1
    UgoDeschamps
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    Ubuntu grub error 18

    Hi guys, its been a while I havent checked around

    Here's my issue, I always used Lilo (3-4 years) and never had a problem.
    Now I decided to try Ubuntu on my lappy...

    Install everything, but I guess I installed grub on the wrong partition cause I get Error 18 on boot up. (I have windows on hda)

    I put in the LiveCD, but cant seem to get grub setup working)

    Here's the output from grub
    Code:
    setup &#40;hd0,<TAB>
Possible partitions are &#58;
    Partition num 0, Filesystem type unknown, parition type 0x7
    Partition num 2, ...
    If I try "setup (hd0,0) I get "Error 12: Invalid devide requested"
    Error 12 seems to be that GRUB doesn't recongnize the file system...

    I've tryed to mount /dev/hda -t ntfs but says its already mounted or in use... (umount says its not mounted...)

    I know someone has the information
    Thanks in advance
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    Did you try "setup (hd0)" ?
    That should put grub on the mbr instead of a partition.
    What does fdisk show?
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