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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