GRUB issue, multibooting on my Dell Mini

NssOne · 02-26-2009, 12:04 PM

Hello, I just received my netbook that came installed with Dell Ubuntu yesterday and I decided I wanted to install Intrepid on it as well. So I resized the partition and installed on the free space on the drive, which I then resized and moved. Now, I do get a GRUB menu, but I can't get the Intrepid install to load. I get an error 13 Invalid unsupported or executable format when I select it. here's a paste of what the menu.list that the GRUB is reading off of. http://pastebin.com/d594226c

I have used GRUB before but this is a new issue to me. So if any body has any insight please help me out. Let me know if there's other info I need to provide. Thank you.

yancek · 02-26-2009, 02:33 PM

It would be a good idea to post your "sudo fdisk -l" output so that we can see what your partition layout is. I'm not sure I understand what you did as you indicate you first resized the original partition to install Intrepid on unallocated space and then you resized again and moved?? Moved what? You should be able to run blkid command (as sudo) to find the UUID of each partition.

CJS · 02-26-2009, 03:03 PM

Your very first Ubuntu entry in the menu.lst has "chainloader +1" tacked on to it when it shouldn't:

Code:

title		Ubuntu
uuid		aa126a64-7938-47f7-93f3-f4d627909630
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=aa126a64-7938-47f7-93f3-f4d627909630 ro quiet splash 
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
quiet
chainloader	+1

If you get rid of that line, I think there's a good chance that Ubuntu will boot just fine. Let me know if that works or not.

andrew22 · 02-26-2009, 03:42 PM

Offtopic, but can I do this to menu.lst ?

Code:

title openSuse
root /home/andrew/suse
kernel /home/andrew/suse/...
initrd /home/andrew/suse/...
savedefault