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

[Brian McKee]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Ken McLennan <kenrmcl at aapt.net.au> wrote:
> G'day there Again,
>
>     I just looked up Grub error messages on Google and found:
>
> 13 : Invalid or unsupported executable format This error is returned if the
> kernel image being loaded is not recognized as Multiboot or one of the
> supported native formats (Linux zImage or bzImage, FreeBSD, or NetBSD).
> In this instance your kernel image is for WinXP but following the above
> logic it seems Grub can't read it. Therefore I'm now more convinced that
> it's because your kernel can't read the windows partition format.
>
>     Does anybody else agree or can positively write off this approach?


Ken - if it's a grub error - the kernel hasn't even started yet.
You're up the wrong tree.
See how even error 13 says it has a problem *loading* an unsupported kernel?

The problem is in that grub stanza - perhaps with the info about how
his machine is set up we can determine it.

Brian