I had that same problem back in 1999 or 2000 I believe. I used LILO to get around it... Had something to do with the segment it was located on the disk, and the hardware having problems addressing past a certain part at boot. For some reason, hard reset and soft reset have different characteristics. & only on some hardware.... One way to work around it is to create a real small partition for boot as (h|s)da1... like 25mb or 50mb. Try pulling everything down to 1 or 2gb for the second partition and use the final partition for swap space. If that works, you know the problem. Or just use LILO when Grub's not your thing :) (disclaimer: I've never used Ubuntu, so I'm not sure of the "only uses application" setup for them. --Dan On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Clayton Stapleton wrote: > Installed Ubuntu 8.04 a week ago Wed. It was installed on a USB 500 G drive. After the install and the system restarted the startup hung with "Grub Loading Stage 1.5 > Grub loading – Please wait > ERROR 21" > To get the system working again I had to press the Restart button on the computer. Then it went into a normal startup. I HATE GRUB!! > Whenever I start the computer from a cold start it goes into a normal startup. When I do a restart it hangs as above and I have to press the restart button, > Otherwise things function as expected. > Is there a simple way to get Grub operating properly? > > Clay Stapleton > > ____________________________________________________________ > FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! > Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Thanks, Dan Lund --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss