[SOLVED] grub error 18

[OliverN]

I installed ubuntu to a second hd (having vista on the first), and now I get grub error 18 when trying to boot.

I've been researching this on my own for a while, and the common solution seems to be creating a small boot partition (32-500 MB's of space suggested) at the beginning of the hd and having the pc load grub from there.

I did this and it didn't work! I have tried making the /boot partition various sizes, but no difference.

When I do find /boot/grub/stage1 through the live-cd in a terminal I get error 15: File not found

What is going on and what can I do?

[Pumalite]

This might help:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#18
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#How_to_make_a_separate_boot_partition

[OliverN]

This might help:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#18
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#How_to_make_a_separate_boot_partition

Thanks for such a quick reply and thank you for those links. Somehow this has gotten solved and I'm sorry to say I have no idea why.

When I booted into a super grub disk for the 30th time or so, it would suddenly let me auto-fix my mbr. This came out of nowhere and I don't know whether to be happy or pissed of.

I've wasted so much time on this and now it suddenly works for no apparent reason! (although I realize there has to be one...)

I'm sorry for not being able to give any hints to others in the same situation...