Hi
I've not been able to find a solution on the forums, so thought I'd post.
My DELL PC came with Vista installed and I then added Ubuntu. This seemed to work fine although I didn't really use Ubuntu too much. Then last week I decide to replace Ubuntu with Fedora 12. I selected the replace existing Linux option during the install process.
After installation, Grub displayed 2 options: Fedora and Other. Fedora was fine, other didn't boot. After readinf around I added another option for vista, but this results in the following error:
Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
fdisk -l returns:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x50000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7 56196 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 8 1313 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 1314 26582 202973242+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 26583 60801 274864117+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 * 26583 26608 204800 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 26608 60801 274658303+ 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/dm-0: 275.9 GB, 275930677248 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 33546 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-1: 5318 MB, 5318377472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 646 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
and my menu.lst is as follows:
# 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/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
# initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
# hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE.img
title Windows Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
I've also tried mounting the Vista partition without any success:
> ntfs-3g /dev/sda3 /mnt/vista
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda3': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda3' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
Any assistance on this would be greatly appreciated. I'm starting to worry that I've lost my vista partition
Thanks