Error # 13 When booting to XP in Grub

[Mike Hoy]

That results in:
grub error 12 invalid device requested

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>wrote:

> 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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