Grub Error 13: "Invalid or unsupported executable format"

[nicholasbgr]

Hi. I was dualbooting vista and ubuntu for a long time, but today I needed to use a software that only works on windows xp. So I created a new partition and instaled on it. After that I restored the grub loader and tried to boot on windows vista. The problem is: i get the error Grub Error 13: "Invalid or unsupported executable format" and windows xp is not showing up. Can someone help me fixing windows vista entry and creating a new one for XP?

This is what I got on fdisk -l:

Dispositivo Boot Início Fim Blocos Id Sistema
/dev/sda1 1 2117 17004771 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 2118 2366 2000092+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 2367 5764 27292866 7 HPFS ou NTFS [VISTA PARTITION]
/dev/sda4 5765 9729 31848862+ f Win95 (LBA) Partição Extendida
/dev/sda5 5765 8643 23125536 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 8644 9729 8723263+ 7 HPFS ou NTFS [XP PARTITION]


And this is my menu.lst:


title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=a5acf5fa-00cb-4bf9-acfb-9d42d592312d ro quiet splash locale=pt_BR
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
quiet


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

[Sef]

It looks like problem is is that Windows likes to be on the first partition. I don't have the time now to research how to fix your problem, I will post something later if time permits.

I had a similar problem and ended up reinstalling Windows and Ubuntu.