Hi,

I have tried to install ubuntu (latest release, i think it is 7.10) yesterday night from a live-cd, which I downloaded from the internet. The Live version of ubuntu worked just fine, so I wanted to copy it onto my harddrive. The installation routine itself caused no problems, but when I tried to boot from the Harddrive, the bootloader GRUB told me: Error 18
Nothing else. I kind of figured out right now that it must have something to do with the BIOS, but that does not really make sense to me, since I used GRUB with openSUSE before, and I did not have this kind of problem.
So does anyone know anything about that?
Thanks

hm, i'm using LiLo which turned out for me to be more reliable, faster and easier to handle.

did you install the boot loader directly to you MBR or somewhere else?

and, I'd like to have a loom at boot/grub/grub.conf and boot/grub/menu.lst, just to be sure.

generally, looks like bad partitioning to me.

which linux distribution are you using?
can you tell me how to install LiLo (as far as I can tell, the ubuntu installation routine does not seem to give me a choice)?
thanks

vector linux (>slackware12) and yes, it comes with LiLo only and offers me no chice either, so i cannot tell how to install grub or lilo without your packet manager (meaning an already working linux distro).

So, since you are using vector linux, are you happy with it?
I am still looking for a good linux distribution (for me, that is one that works xD), so I would be open to use others than ubuntu...

there's a cool quiz-like distribution chooser that tells you which distro to use depending on your pc knowledge.

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/

i chose vector linux in the first place to revive my old p3-500, now i run it on my fresh centrino laptop as well. it's said to be the fastest linux distro after gentoo and i have to confirm that.
vector is based on slackware, so benefits from its advantages like speed, stability, adjustability to your needs, without being difficult to configure like the original slackware (which isn't, but com pared to ubuntu), in fact, it was the only distro that recognised my ancient gpu correctly. however, do not be afraid of the command line and config files, i'd always recommend to set your preferences in the rc files rather than the gui managers...
for me, vector is the way to go. however, it has a really simple package management that does not natively support dependency tracking, but vector's gslapt does, so if you know synaptic/apt from debian/ubuntu, you might feel right at home.