ROFL, I just noticed also that the swap partition is the one marked as being
bootable

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Mike Hoy <mhoy06@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just installed Ubuntu on this laptop and when I first looked for XP in
> the grub menu list it wasn't there. I googled it and the web page said to
> add the following:
>
> title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
> root (hd0,1)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
> I get Error # 13 *"Invalid or unsupported executable format" Now that I've
> added those lines.
>
> Question: Does it matter where I add it at? I added it before:
> ***### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
>
> Also here is my fdisk info:
> Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x321d321c
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               2        3071    24659775    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda2   *        3072        3320     2000092+  82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda3            3321        7296    31937220   83  Linux
> /dev/sda5               2        3071    24659743+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>
>
> I added the fdisk info because on one forum it was asked for and never
> provided.
>
> Thanks for any help.
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