unable to write correct grub.conf for dual boot

hello ,

i use suse 9.3

this is result of fdisk command

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disk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 25841 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 967 7310488+ 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 968 12295 85639680 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 12296 25839 102392640 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 12296 12432 1035688+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 12433 25839 101356888+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdf: 130 MB, 130023424 bytes
32 heads, 32 sectors/track, 248 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1024 * 512 = 524288 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdf1 * 1 248 126960 b W95 FAT32

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i can't write the correct menu.lst (for grub) for booting correctly on windows

this is my menu.lst

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color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 30
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message
bootp /dev/sda2
unhide /dev/sda2

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE LINUX 9.3 Pour Faouzi
    kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x317 selinux=0  splash=silent resume=/dev/sda5  showopts
    initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows XP
    rootnoverify(hd0,1)
    chainloader +1

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if i choice windows to start , i get this error message :

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Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format

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any one can help me please ,

thanks

Hi ... Grub, in it's own way, has decided to be tres cool to programmers by having it's drive letters 0 based, unlike almost every other drive program in Linux so ...

you need to use 0,0 for partition 1 and 0,4 for partition 5

peppena - I think there may be some history to uncover here, judging by the partition marked as hidden W95 at the start of the disk.

Were you using win9x before you installed XP, and were you multibooting?

Here's what I would recommend for your menu.lst and grub.conf file.

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default 1
timeout 30
color white/blue black/light-gray
#
#
#

title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (sd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

#
#
#

title=SuSE Linux 9.3 Pour Paouzi
root (hd0,1)
    kernel (sd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x317 selinux=0  splash=silent resume=/dev/sda5  showopts
    initrd (sd0,5)/boot/initrd

#

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Make a backup of your current file and try that. I hope it works for you.

thank you for your assistance,

I will test and I will keep you informed

;)