Hi rubioo, havent had any replies or anything to this so kind of forgot about it ... turned out though that grub legacy I reverted to was fine for a while then suddenly started getting errors with this too - still no problems with any other software including memory intensive games on windows etc - normally the first thing to go with bad memory is games crashing and windows blue screens for me - have had this happen but memtest passing ok.
Anyway it continued and got worse and then was erroring every boot and could no longer boot and then I noticed on bios was reporting 2GB instead of 3GB - right ok - memory failure - then memtest started reporting errors and I removed the offending stick and everything ok again and back to normal ie booting fine .. So if anyone else reads this they will know they have bad memory like me .. is really weird though that memory intensive games and mersenne prime torture tests all working ok as is memtest but only the grub2 bootloader (and then grub legacy) are giving errors with it .. totally confusing ... Hope this is useful to somebody though ... was bit annoyed I wasnt getting any response from anyone on the bug team but I guess theres a lot of bugs ... anyhoo youve got bad memory mate if having same errors as me - try swapping out 1 stick at a time and seeing which one is on the turn as it were because it will fail eventually .. and get some new memory ... incidentally I was running 1066 mhz ram (PC8500) DDR2 and it did get hot - I bought some new 800 mhz ram (PC6400) with lower latency and runs a lot cooler / more stable and if anything faster - doesnt seem any slower and will probably last longer .. -- grub2 crashes randomly 'free magic is broken' with multiple disks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498882 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
