Morning,

Nick Rout wrote:

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 00:06, InfoHelp wrote:


Hi folks,

I believe the install is now ready to boot, with Suse partition's grub
entry amended to include Gentoo (same method already works to boot WinXP
& Knoppix), but:

"Error 13: Unsupported executable format"




at what stage is this error given?


After Suse's Grub (menu selection) has passed the boot process on to the Gentoo partition.

(Stage 2 > 3?)

I checked Grub's website FAQ & "Error 13" means the kernel isn't in a recognised format to run.

Final trial last night had me copying random possibilities, incl. vmlinux, into /boot - none of which helped.

I'll boot up the Gentoo target box from Suse again & send you ls /boot to review.

I have a kernel-2.6.5-gentoo

(a copy rename from ../i386/vmlinux)


what is the name of the kernel image you moved to boot?

^ ^ ^

1st Q for the day is: if that kernel was compiled using Suse's 2.4.x, can it be correct for booting 2.6.5-gentoo?
Unguided, I would be recompiling after booting & chrooting from the LiveCD instead.


what does grub.conf say?


I'll send that too



pointed to, but no vmlinuz partition



vmlinuz is not a partition, it is a kernel

The post was a stacked list, unpunctuated - sorry to confuse you.

Less casual typing in future. :-)



& reiserfs correctly identified
.. on the right track?


Cheers,

Rik


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