Help! Can't get back into WinXP-- Error 13: Invalid...

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Sun Sep 14 11:45:14 UTC 2008


John Hamilton wrote:
> After following the exact instructions from 
> http://www.easy-ubuntu-linux.com/grub-menu-default.html, 
>
> I edited the menu with:
>
> title Windows XP 
> rootnoverify (hd0,0) 
> makeactive 
> chainloader +1
>
> and when I restart, Ubuntu defaults to that title, but when I press enter,
> I get Error 13: INVALID or UNSUPPORTED EXECUTABLE FORMAT.
>
> Please!, can someone help me get back into WinXP?  Thank you!!!
>
>
>
>   
    Do you get the normal Grub window where you select between Ubuntu 
and Windows? Try changing your menu.lst to use (hd0) instead of (hd0,0). 
I think that may help.

Karl


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