Comment 18 for bug 260001

Here is how I resolved this issue.

I am runnig a triple boot environment on one HDD I have XP PRO/Vista Ultimate SP1 with a modivied BCD (vista boot loader alomost like grub really) Vista want to take control and Ubuntu wants to take control... its a battle. Ubuntu resides on the secondary slave drive with it s own swap space.

Previously with no issues I altered the Vista BCD to include XP/Vista/Ubuntu hardy and when I slected hardy i was passed to the grub loader. all was fine.

enter IBEX

Upgrading in my case failed miserably CD had no errors and all was fine, fresh install failked as well with this error so determined I decided to win I had to let UBUNTU grub do the job I also had a sata drive which I unplugged for some reason IDE/sata mix during install for me is a no no.

I proceeded to formats the slave HDD completley and then install with a completly pre formated HDD, result no errors, Except now I have to boot Linux by default and loog at that ugly grub menu (regardless of what you do its still ugly and clumbsy) now I boot all 3 but made the slave drive be the first bootable device in bios, had I not done that, selecting UBUNTU form the vista bcd load the grub for dos with anerro and shows a grub>

Never got that why...

I got mine working at last though disapointed since openoffice is stil 2.4 not 3.0 and TBH besides a few fixes I rather have staid with 8.4.0.1LTS and you really dont have that much else going for it nothing looks inovative....

Sorry for the offtopic bit.