On 8/30/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gayal wrote: > I was using Win XP with FC5 and wanted to install Ubuntu as well. > > So i deleted the FC5 partition (just for the fun of doing it) and > installed ubuntu straight from the live cd V6.10. > And my laptop dual booted perfectly with XP. > After that i installed FC5 and during the creation of boot loader i > added XP and Ubutu as well from there respective partitions. > > But then triple boot failed. > This is the message i get when selected ubuntu from Fedora Core 5 Grub Menu > ----------------------------------- > > Booting 'ubuntu' > rootnoverify (hd0,6) > chainloadre +1 > > Error 13: Invalid or Unsupported executable format. > Press any key to continue > > so how can i fix this problem and tripple boot my laptop. > > my file systems are as follows: > XP - NTFS > ubuntu - reiserfs > FC5 - Ext3 > > -- > Gayal Rupasinghe > SRI LANKA > (SU-APIIT) > User #396462 counter.li.org <http://counter.li.org> > In the Ubuntu OS, you need to install its boot loader into the partition that you have the ubuntu boot loader located in. For example: I had to run grub-install /dev/hdb1 to chainload another installation from within the installation that had grub installed in that location, I don't know if it is a spelling difference such as British compared to US spelling, but chainloader +1 instead of chainlodre + 1 might be the problem with the setup. There was also a problem related to reiserFS with grub in the past. I think that this factor should not matter. It might be solved already. Jim -- Everyone was born right-handed. Only the greatest overcome it. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Hi Gayal Rupasinghe and Jim Cornette! Gayle, Jim has it pretty much right I think. The chainload of Ubuntu (sort of a "stop looking here and start fresh right there!) should see a Fresh MBR (this is were I have a bit of a question since I can only see an MBR as being generated for the first sector of the disk) immediately followed (and referenced in the MBR) by a file within your current /boot/grub called "reiserfs_stage1_5". In every Ubuntu installation I have looked at stage 1.5 I have found immediately following the MBR (MBR sector 1, Stage 1.5 sector 2). I believe it could be located anywhere as long as you pointed to that location within the MBR. The grub boot sequence is Stage 1 - the Master Boot Record - which points to Stage 1.5 which is sort of a connector enabling the file system intended ("reiser" in this case) - Stage 2 - GRUB proper. The stage 1.5 I reference above is a bit less than eighteen 512 byte sectors long. I do not know where the partition file tables start. I guess I am saying that if it were me I would look a bit further before I did indeed transfer stage 1.5 to "just after the MBR of the Ubuntu partition". I am talking a bit above my knowledge and experience (although I am suspicious it would work). Good Hunting! Tod -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list