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I've got a laptop that I'm attempting to dual-boot SLED 10 and XP on. I'm very new to Linux and have made a couple different attempts at getting this to work. After my initial install everything seemed fine. I logged into my Windows build today and noticed that my wireless was off. After enabling it, I decided to restart to ensure that it would stick(this is a test build for a very large distribution) and now I get Error 13 when attempting to boot to Windows.
Code:
rootnoverify (hd0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
My menu.1st looks like this:
Code:
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
Sda1 is an NTFS partition for XP. 2 is SLED. 4 is a shared partition between the two OS's for documents and such.
If you can't already tell, I know very little about what I 'm doing. Any help would be greatly appreciated and if possible, explanation of what it all means would be great too.
By smacking the pause/break button in sync with enter(a little hard when using the Fn button to hit pause) and trying it a few hundred times I think I got the unknown message.
Okay...so now I've really got myself into trouble. I went ahead and tried your suggestion but got the same results. Then I started reading the GRUB manual and tried a few more things. I ended up with this:
Code:
title Windows
unhide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot
I used the unhide/hide command because I thought that maybe the extra fat partition was causing problems. I had read that having other Windows primary partitions sometimes causes problems. I also started using hd(0,0) because according to the manual, GRUB counts up from 0. That would mean my NTFS partition is partition 0 rather than 1.
Anyway, after changing the menu.1st to the afore mentioned example I received this lovely error:
Code:
Error loading operating system
This comes up right after POST. I'm guessing I'm out of luck but I figured I'd pitch to you first. Is there any way to pop in the SUSE Live CD and maybe bring it back to life, or is it a total rebuild?
Thanks for all your input. I finally had to wipe it and start over. Works fine now though. Again, I appreciate everyone helping me out and I'll definitely stay active here.
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