On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 13:12 +0000, norman wrote: > Old nuisance is here again - Happy New Year - I had a sata hdd for > Christmas on to which I installed Win XP Pro having first disconnected > the Ubuntu hdd. Then, with both drives connected I confirmed that the > Ubuntu drive is hd0 and the Windows drive is hd1. At the end of menu.lst > in Grub folder I added at the very end:- > > title Windows > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > rootverify (hd1,hd0) > chainloader > > On starting to boot I pressed esc and, at the bottom of the list, there > was Windows. I am winning I thought so, after selected Windows I pressed > enter and saw what I had entered in menu.lst and an error message:- > > Invalid or unsupported executable format. > > I seem to have done something wrong and hope that some kind reader can > point me in the right direction, please. > > Norman
I don't know if it helps at all, but my menu.lst is set up with this at the end (automagically added, not manually by me, I might add): title Microsoft Windows XP Professional root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 I don't know if the extra lines "savedefault" or "makeactive" would get rid of the error message, just posting this as an example of a working grub menu item! (My dual-boot is from the same hdd, windows and then ubuntu partitions). Were you following instructions from this list or an online how-to? Good luck sorting the issue out, Josh -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
