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I had a computer installed Debian 3.1, Windows XP and Kubuntu. I decided to replace Kubuntu with Fedora Core 3 using Grub as a bootloader. Now I cannot boot with ...
  1. 12-18-2006 #1
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    Angry Fedora Core 3 Grub Problem



    I had a computer installed Debian 3.1, Windows XP and Kubuntu. I decided to replace Kubuntu with Fedora Core 3 using Grub as a bootloader. Now I cannot boot with either Debian and WindowsXP below are the errors :-

    Booting Windows...

    rootnoverify (hd0,1)
    chainloader +1

    error 13 invalid or unsupported executable format

    and ....

    Booting 'Debian'

    rootnoverify (hd0,5)
    chainloader +1

    error 13 invalid or unsupported executable format

    Lastly my /boot/grub/menu.1st files has something like this:-

    #boot=/dev/hda
    default=0
    timeout=5
    splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
    hiddenmenu
    title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/1 ghgb quiet
    inittrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
    title Windows XP
    rootnoverify (hd0,1)
    chainloader +1
    title Debian
    rootnoverify (hd0,5)
    chainloader +1

    Your help is greatly appreciated.

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    Hi yastpop !

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    post the output of 'fdisk -l' command. mount 'root' partition of Debian and post the contents of its menu.lst file.






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    fdisk -l

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hda1 1 1785 14337981 83 Linux
    /dev/hda2 1786 3548 14161297+ 83 Linux
    /dev/hda3 3549 3610 498015 82 Linux swap
    /dev/hda4 3611 4861 10048657+ 5 Extended
    /dev/hda5 4797 4861 522081 82 Linux swap
    /dev/hda6 3611 4796 9526482 83 Linux
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    post the contents of Debian's menu.lst file too.






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    Quote Originally Posted by devils_casper
    post the contents of Debian's menu.lst file too.






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    I am facing a problem of mounting /dev/hda were my Debian is residing. Let me work around to see if i can extract that data.
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    Quote Originally Posted by devils_casper
    post the contents of Debian's menu.lst file too.






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    Sorry i meant problem mounting /dev/hda6 where my Debian is residing...
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    boot up Fedroa and execute this
    Code:
    su -
mkdir /media/debian
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6  /media/debian
    check /media/debian folder and copy menu.lst file. its in /media/debian/boot/grub folder.






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