Hi All, I am new in linux. Stuck in a issue. Please help me. I have already installed windoows 2008 R2 on the system. (/dev/sda1) I have installed RHEL 5 in /dev/sda3 AND rhel 6 on /dev/sda6 I cannot install RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 on same machine. Following are the steps i did. 1. Installed RHEL 5 first and then RHEL 6. While installing RHEL 6, I overwrite the MBR for Rhel 5. I added entry for Rhel 5 while creating the grub during installation in Rhel 6. I mentioned the partition on which Rhel 5 was installed i.e. /dev/sda3 After successfully installing Rhel 6. When I tried to boot up in RHEL 5 from grub following error message was shown "error 13 invalid unsupported executable format" Following is the grub.conf file [root@localhost ~]# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,5) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6 # initrd /boot/initrd-[generic-]version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Red Hat Enterprise Linux (2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 ro root=UUID=d7f6cd43-646a-4c0f-8f15-5ea72583e6b5 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=128M rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64.img title rhel 5 rootnoverify (hd0,2) chainloader +1 title Other rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 I mounted the rhel 5 /dev/sda3 partition in RHEL 6. Checked the files are present in /boot folder. They were present. Then I copied the rhel 5 grub.conf's ENTRY into Rhel 6 grub.conf. This was the updated grub.conf file [root@localhost ~]# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,5) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6 # initrd /boot/initrd-[generic-]version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Red Hat Enterprise Linux (2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 ro root=UUID=d7f6cd43-646a-4c0f-8f15-5ea72583e6b5 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=128M rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64.img title rhel 5 root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.el5.img title Other rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 STILL same error message was shown. 2. I installed Rhel 6 first and then RHEL 5. While trying to boot Rhel 6 following error message was shown "error 2 bad file or directory type" I booted the system in RHEL 5 and again did all the things mentioned before. Still no output. PLEASE can anybody help me out from this. Thanks a lot