Just happened to me also. Installed the 64 bit version of Kubuntu 8.10 and my inode was 256. Result on boot after install was grub "Error 17" and in trying to fix in grub shell, got "Error 2" when trying to read ext3 partition. As with previous poster, lost a couple days trying everything until came across these bug reports. Solution was to reformat wherever /boot lives with inode size 128, re-install without using installer formatting and then everything worked fine.
This seems like a very serious bug that it results in boot error on fresh install. Looks like Debian fixed this last March with a newer Grub release, but Ubuntu doesn't have fix. -- GRUB needs priority update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197951 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
