Since I installed grub from Dapper no more problems appeared. BTW I never had any problems like this with hoary, breezy or dapper on this machine.
Some additional info: Mainboard/BIOS: ASUSTeK Computer INC. MED 2001 REV 1.xx Award Modular BIOS v6.0 ASUS MED 2001 ACPI BIOS Revision 1009 06/12/2001-VT694X-MED 2001 $fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 192 1542208+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 193 714 4192965 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda3 715 975 2096482+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda4 976 9729 70316505 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 976 1913 7534422 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1914 2015 819283+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda7 2016 3008 7976209+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 3009 8575 44716896 83 Linux /dev/hda9 8576 9729 9269473+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) $sudo cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/geometry physical 16383/16/63 logical 65535/16/63 $sudo cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/capacity 156301488 $sudo cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/model WDC WD800JB-00JJA0 -- grub - Error 18 sometimes since edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/79578 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
