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Jun 21, 2010

I just replaced the HD in my computer with a larger one (1tb) and installed Ubuntu Lucid 64bit onto two partitions (100gb for / and the rest for /home). I rebooted and it loaded up fine. Did some stuff, had to restart (NVidia drivers) and it stopped at a GRUB rescue prompt, reporting the error "Error : Out of Disk". So I rebooted again and it worked no problem. But since then, every second bootup or so delivers this error, while other times it loads Ubuntu fine. I've tried running update-grub a few times and this always seems to work. But ultimately, the problem never goes away. I also had a look at this [URL] But it seems the advice given to change the 10_linux file must be only for an earlier version of GRUB2 as the file on my machine is very different.

EDIT: I've attached the output of a Boot Info Script that I got here: [URL]

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In the past month or two I've run into a strange problem where Grub gives error 18 "Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS". Strange because:
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Code:

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Edit: This is somewhat inaccurate, please see post #16 on page 2 for my actual situation

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Code:

error: out of disk.
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Code:

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Code:
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Code:
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[Code]...

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[Code].....

Note:

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Code:
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Code:

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Code:

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Code:

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Code: ...

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