Re: Grub sucks with Error 13!!!

akonstam_at_trinity.edu
Date: 04/02/05

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    Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:10:07 -0600
    To: Didier Casse <elprodigio@gmail.com>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    
    

    On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 10:53:03PM +0800, Didier Casse wrote:
    > Hi everybody!
    > I'm gonna bug again. I'm so irritated with
    > Fedora at the moment. I'm installing it on a friend's laptop who's new
    > to linux and everything start to suck more than M$ Windows.
    >
    > Now grub can't boot my friend's windows xp and complains:
    >
    > Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
    >
    > I roughly know what it is but I want to know how to solve this. Can I
    > have a helping hand? I spent some time dealing with it but it still
    > stays the same. The linux part loads perfectly.
    >
    > --
    > Cheers,
    > Didier.
    Of course it would be interesting to ask to see your grub.conf. But
    what makes you think it is a grub problem. All grub does is turn
    execution to the xp boot loader. Why is this not a xp boot problem?
    Unless there is no xp boot loader where grub is transferring control.
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