Re: grub error 18

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:34:36 -0000
"davesurrey" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So I guess we just have to put it to bed not ever knowing who-dunnit.

I reckon it was letting the various distros partition their own disk
space rather than doing it from the "master" installation, which was
why I asked about that somewhere up the thread.

.

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