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I'm having problems with booting into Windows XP in a triple boot system
I installed the OS is this order:
1. Windows XP
2. SUSE 9.3
3. RHEL 5
4. Did a grub install using the RHEL CD.
I can boot to both SUSE and RHEL partitions without problems but with the XP option I get a :
Quote:
grub error 13: invalid unsupported executable format
error.
here is the grub.conf:
Code:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,4)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet hpet=disable
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title SUSE LINUX 9.3
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 vga=0x317 selinux=0 splash=silent acpi=off resume=/dev/hda4 showopts
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd
and the fdisk -l command gave me:
Code:
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1698 13637498+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1699 1711 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 4297 7296 24097500 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda4 2736 4296 12538732+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 4297 4309 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 4310 7296 23993046 8e Linux LVM
Partition table entries are not in disk order
----------------
I tried to add the "makeactive" option in the windows XP item based on another post I read that worked, but the same problems arises.
I'm having problems with booting into Windows XP in a triple boot system
I installed the OS is this order:
1. Windows XP
2. SUSE 9.3
3. RHEL 5
4. Did a grub install using the RHEL CD.
I can boot to both SUSE and RHEL partitions without problems but with the XP option I get a :
error.
here is the grub.conf:
Code:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,4)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet hpet=disable
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title SUSE LINUX 9.3
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 vga=0x317 selinux=0 splash=silent acpi=off resume=/dev/hda4 showopts
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd
and the fdisk -l command gave me:
Code:
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1698 13637498+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1699 1711 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 4297 7296 24097500 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda4 2736 4296 12538732+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 4297 4309 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 4310 7296 23993046 8e Linux LVM
Partition table entries are not in disk order
----------------
I tried to add the "makeactive" option in the windows XP item based on another post I read that worked, but the same problems arises.
What should I do?
TIA
Hi!
I am no expert but looking at your grub read-out, I would expect Windows to be (hd0,1) which it is. You also have Suse as (hd0,1) which to my mind it can't be. If this is your problem I am not sure how you fix it as you say Suse boots as (hd0,1). I would expect to have to change the Suse to (hd0,2) or (hd0,3 or 6), but you say it already recognises itself as (hd0,1). From your devices above it looks as if (hd0,6) is the other Linux partition.
I hope this might help, if not I am talking nonsense and so just ignore my nonsense.
Tried rootnoverify (hd0,0) and grub just automatically goes back into the grub menu. Actually I tried hd0,0 till 8 and it still just reverts back to the grub selection menu.
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