Help w/ grub errors.. (22 & 13)

[seaninseattle]

So, I've got an actual error msg now: 13 on the WinXP Pro boot attempt, and then error # 22 when at.

I have dual SATA 120gb drives in my laptop. I have a HP Pavillion dv9428nr laptop.

Here's the fdisk -l sd*

Table for /dev/SDA

/dev/sda1 - Bootable - 1..40 - 321268+ Blocks - ID 83 - Linux
/dev/sda2 - not bootable - 40..500 - 3694950 Blocks - ID 82 - Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 - not bootable - 500..14593 - 113202022 Blocks - ID 83 - Linux

Table for /dev/SDB

/dev/sdb1 - not bootable - 1..14592 - 117210208+ Blocks - ID 7 - NTFS



Here's my Grub.conf file:

timeout 10
default 0
fallback 1

title=Gentoo
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5
root (hd0,3)

title=Windows XP Pro
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

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So, the windows boot attempt is giving an error # 13 saying invalid or unsupported executable format. The linux boot attempt reported error # 22 saying no such partition.

I'm not sure what I should do. Any help would be appreciated.
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[Rob1n]

Your windows probably needs to be a bootable partition, and your linux setup is wrong. You're getting confused between what grub sets as a root device and what the kernel sets as a root device. The root device for grub is where it expects to start looking for its files - hd0,0 in your case. The kernel root device needs to be passed in as a parameter using the standard linux format, so /dev/sda3. Try:

[seaninseattle]

So, I switched the windows partition to bootable, and made the edits to the grub.conf file... and got an Error 11: unrecognized device string. The windows partition is still giving an error 13, unrecognized executable format.
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[ptero]

err... you don't need the (hd0,0) after kernel. try to remove it and look what will happen.
as for windows... i always saw (and put) makeactive before chainloader +1. i don't know if it matters (probably not), but you can try to do it that way.