cyber_tods Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Hi all, My target is to have a successful triple-boot system. Vista, Ubuntu 7.10, Leopard. So far, I've managed to dual boot successfully to VIsta and Ubuntu. Now, I went back to Ubuntu so I can add/edit the menu.lst and put this for my Leopard title Mac OS X86 root (hd0,3) makeactive chainloader +1 After that, I can see "Mac OS X86" entry in GRUB. Now, when I hightlight it, I press enter, It gives me: Error: 13 Invalid or unsupported executable format Press any key to continue .. THen it loops back to GRUB. Now, I did a little research and they said that chainloader +1 is for old school OSX like tiger (mbr). Of course, I was aming for boot_efi 8.0 for convinience. My questions are: 1) I now have the boot_efi from netkas, where and how do I copy it? The linux partition? /boot/grub? - Im really not sure where and how 2) After copying it, what entry do I put in grub menu.lst instead of chainloader +1? I'm really new to GRUB/Linux and I don't know what I'm doing. I'm not even sure if everything I just said is the right thing. Could someone please help me? It would be nice if you could make it simple (like talking to a kindergarten) Thank you so much!!! EDIT: By the way, I used Kalyway's release. I don't know what version of EFI they used there ... if that matters. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86401-error-13-in-grub-when-adding-leopard-entry/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSM Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 This is why I installed Kalyway as MBR. I am using PCLinuxOS 2008 on the first drive, with Grub installed there. Mac 10.5.1 is on the second drive. I recommend s dual-drive setup. Make sure your bios sees the Linux drive as the first hard disc so Linux doesn't try to install Grub on your OSX drive. That makes for a lot of pain. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86401-error-13-in-grub-when-adding-leopard-entry/#findComment-613168 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyber_tods Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 Hey, Thanks for your quick reply. I actually installed Kalyway in MBR (since I'm using only 1 drive). I trashed GUID for now .. I don't have a spare hdd Actually, I tried it. I copied boot_v8 (from netkas, not from Kalyway - does this matter?) to my Linux partition. I made my own directory /pc_efi/ and copied boot_v8 there. And I added this entry in my menu.lst title Mac OSX Leopard root (hd0,3) kernel /pc_efi/boot_v8 I didn't add makeactive .. should I add it? well actually, when I tried and it was the same. Moreover, this time Error 13 is gone. I now get a new error .. Error 17 .. saying that it can't mount the volume partition or something like that. Am I going too far? or getting close to fixing my problem? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86401-error-13-in-grub-when-adding-leopard-entry/#findComment-613206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Hey, Thanks for your quick reply. I actually installed Kalyway in MBR (since I'm using only 1 drive). I trashed GUID for now .. I don't have a spare hdd Actually, I tried it. I copied boot_v8 (from netkas, not from Kalyway - does this matter?) to my Linux partition. I made my own directory /pc_efi/ and copied boot_v8 there. And I added this entry in my menu.lst title Mac OSX Leopard root (hd0,3) kernel /pc_efi/boot_v8 I didn't add makeactive .. should I add it? well actually, when I tried and it was the same. Moreover, this time Error 13 is gone. I now get a new error .. Error 17 .. saying that it can't mount the volume partition or something like that. Am I going too far? or getting close to fixing my problem? Thanks From your other thread, (hd0,3) is your Linux swap partition. Change it to (hd0,1) -- same as your ubuntu entry. And change the chainloader line to boot after your kernel line. You don't need makeactive with this method. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86401-error-13-in-grub-when-adding-leopard-entry/#findComment-613461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyber_tods Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 Hey thanks, I posted my reply in the other thread. I think I kinda found a fix for this problem. I dunno .. but it actually worked Check out my reply on the other thread. I'll just that one to avoid double Post. Thanks dude! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86401-error-13-in-grub-when-adding-leopard-entry/#findComment-613510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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