I recently installed 7.04 fiesty on my new 'AMD Dual core AM2 Socket M2V motherboard with 80GB of space', replacing my openSUSE 10.2. It installed fine but when I decided to reinstall. Using "Entire HD" option as I did before. It installed then after rebooting, I got GRUB Error 18.
Looked around, thought it maybe my BIOS, updated my bios to a BETA 1701, reinstalled Ubuntu 7.04, installed copied everything then rebooted....Got grub error 18. Spoke to people on irc.ubuntu.com, one user said, "Ubuntu 7.04 only just came out". So I thought I'd install Ubuntu Edgy 6.10. Got my ISO CD for Ubuntu 6.10, installed with the partition option : "Entire HD" rebooted. Got the GRUB error 18. Went back to Ubuntu irc and then someone said, install Dapper. By that time I just about had it with Ubuntu. Just a few notes that might help Ubuntu ------------------------------------------------------------ Have the IRC software PREINSTALLED on the LIVE ISO. Everytime I needed to go back to the IRC channel, I had to boot into "Ubuntu live CD", install the IRC software (Konversation is my fav) just to get back to the IRC channel. Lucky i had the every memory dimm space really to install the software I'm not impressed with the GRUB error 18 I know it's fixable but manually partitioning for old machines. But it should just work on new machines like openSUSE. Also I wasn't impressed with Ubuntu's Nvidia driver, how the screen refresh rate kept defaulting back to 50Hz when I wanted it at 60. The Ubuntu Nvidia driver didn't recognise my GeForce card but i know Nvidia offical drivers do. Hope this helps improve Ubuntu as it still looks promising. I've gone back to openSUSE till Ubuntu has matured more. If only i tested that Ubuntu installed twice in VMWare, I might not of had this grief of reinstalling openSUSE. Will still keep an eye on Ubuntu :) -- Grub -- Error 18 returned with Vmware https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/22833 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
