Re: Installing from hard drive
See this post within Qqmike's HOW TO: GRUB Methods - Toolkit concerning Gurb error 18.
See this post within Qqmike's HOW TO: GRUB Methods - Toolkit concerning Gurb error 18.
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Re: Installing from hard drive
Gosh, I was afraid of that. Caused probably by different BIOSes.
Here's another reference on it, too:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#18
Unfortunately, Error 18 can be difficult to fix, a real nuisance.
First, though:
When you plug the external HD into to your laptop (not your mom's, but yours), do you see the GRUB boot menu before seeing Error 18? If so, then you can try to re-install GRUB when it is in your personal machine:
Press "c" key when you see the boot menu.
That gives a grub> prompt.
type
find /boot/grub/stage1
That will return some value (hd0,y) (where y will be 0, 1, 2, 3, or some value). Now, I do presume that it will say hd0 since you booted from the external drive (in your machine).
Put that (hd0,y) here:
grub> root (hd0,y)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit
That will re-set GRUB and sometimes that works to clear the Error 18 (I get 18 sometimes when messing with flash drives).
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