On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 22:54 -0500, Mike Hoy 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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I will look at my laptop later but the thing that sticks out
immediately...
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
should be 'root (hd0,6)' because your Windows partition is in /dev/sda5
Craig
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