Multi Boot Issues

[giaviv]

Hey guys,

I have 3 hard drives. One is 320GB and contains Windows Vista in one 120GB partition and a NTFS data partition (180GB). The second hard drive contains one HFS+ partition which holds Mac OS X 86 (the size is 120GB). The third hard drive is 750GB and contains one partition which holds Ubuntu and a swap partition. I can successfully boot into Ubuntu, but can't boot into Windows. Note that booting into Mac gives me a HFS+ partition error so this is probably not for this forum but this is probably not a grub issue. So the main problem is bot being able to boot into Vista. Here is my fdisk -lu:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdc97c70c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 16065 245762369 122873152+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda2 245762370 625137344 189687487+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 16128 245762369 122873121 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2d689089

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 1443874004 721936971 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 1443874005 1465144064 10635030 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 1443874068 1465144064 10634998+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdc: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x173fe8c6

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 63 234436544 117218241 af Unknown

##note: /dev/sda5 is the windows installation partition

Here is my menu.lst (I took off the comments):

default 0
timeout 10

title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=0ef437f2-7e6e-4cbb-9755-e6128bf56611 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=0ef437f2-7e6e-4cbb-9755-e6128bf56611 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04.1, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

title Mac OS X
root (hd2,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

The rest of the menu.lst is the VIsta part. I tried all the following combinations:

title Windows Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

and got grub's Error 13

tried:

title Windows Vista
rootnoverify (hd1,4)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

and got grub's Error 13

tried:

title Windows Vista
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

and got grub's Error 12

tried:

title Windows Vista
root (hd1,4)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

and got grub's Error 12

tried:

title Windows Vista
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

and got grub's Error 12

tried:

title Windows Vista
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

and got grub's Error 13.

Anyone has a clue on this?

Thanks!

[Hal343]

Here is explanation from Grub manual for stage 2 boot errors:
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).
14 : Filesystem compatibility error, cannot read whole file
In case it is earlier stage error:
Here is link to Grub Manual
GRUB Manual - Error messages reported by GRUB

[Jonathan183]

You may find Vista will not boot of a logical partition. If you disconnect all other drives from the system except the one containing Vista does Vista boot?