Re: Grub sucks with Error 13!!!

akonstam_at_trinity.edu
Date: 04/02/05

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    Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 15:56:42 -0600
    To: Didier Casse <elprodigio@gmail.com>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    
    

    On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:14:30PM +0800, Didier Casse wrote:
    > On Apr 2, 2005 10:59 PM, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@uni-x.org> wrote:
    > > Am Sa, den 02.04.2005 schrieb Didier Casse um 16:53:
    > >
    > > > 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.
    > >
    > > > Didier.
    > >
    > > Seems you need to correct the partition type ID:
    > >
    > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-March/msg03315.html
    > >
    >
    > I just found out that my friend's laptop has cylinders set to 7301.
    > Could that be the problem? Is is possible to set it to 1024 and hope
    > that the problem is solved?
    >
    The number of cylinders the machine has can be 7301. 1024 is an old
    useless upper limit of cylinders.

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