On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:41:06 -0400, Charles Sullivan <cwsulliv@triad.rr.com> wrote: > > > I have a HDD with Ubuntu 7.04 which was installed with the HDD > connected as primary master (which with my Ultra ATA card is > referred to as /dev/sda under Ubuntu, as /dev/hde under Fedora). > Ubuntu is in the first partition, i.e., /dev/sda1. > > I want to use a HDD with Fedora Core 6 installed as primary master > and move the Ubuntu HDD to secondary master. There's already a > HDD with Windows XP connected as primary slave. > > Figuring that the Ubuntu HDD had its own grub bootloader, I added > this stanza to /boot/grub/grub.conf on the FC-6 HDD: > > title Ubuntu > rootnoverify (hd2,0) > chainloader +1 > > However when attempting to boot Ubuntu, I immediately get the > following: > ----------------- > Booting 'Ubuntu' > rootnoverify (hd2,0) > chainloader +1 > > Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format > Press any key to continue > ----------------- > > I've tried tweaking the Ubuntu /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab > files but it makes no difference - I don't think it ever got that > far. > > Any ideas as to what could be wrong? Thanks for your help. > The bootloader might be in the MBR, not the first partition. Try rootnoverify (hd2) chainloader +1 or root (hd2,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.whatever initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.whatever -- BOFH excuse #296: The hardware bus needs a new token.