Error # 13 When booting to XP in Grub

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 23:27 -0500, Mike Hoy wrote:
> 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
>         
----
brain death occurred some time ago...

(hd0,4)

Craig


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