Error # 13 When booting to XP in Grub

[Mike Hoy]

root (hd0,6)

Results in:

Error 22 no such partition



On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>wrote:

> 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.
> ----
> 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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Mike Hoy
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