Ubuntu Hardy Heron server install: grub not updated

[Raseel Bhagat]

Hi Walter

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Walter Garcia-Fontes <walter.garcia at upf.edu>
wrote:

> I have installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron server edition on a system which
> has Fedore Core 5 and Windows XP each in its own partition. There is
> also another small partition with Dell utilities.
>
> Ubuntu installed fine after resizing the Fedora partition, creating a fifth
> partition (with swap in a sixth partition). The installation went
> smooth without any problem.
>
> But grub did not get updated, and after rebooting the system I still
> only see Fedora Core 5 and Windows XP as the only options to boot
> into. The Ubuntu partition is there, as I can see after booting into
> Fedora, but my grup.conf is still the original one.
>
> What went wrong with the grub update? (I was asked about this at the
> end of the Ubuntu installation, and the installer was able to see
> Fedora and Windows XP without any problem and told me it was going to
> add Ubuntu as a boot option, and did not give any error message, but
> got stuck after closing the installer and saying "reinitiating the
> system" or something like that).
>
> Thanks for any help on how I can finish the installation, apart from
> writing the ubuntu boot option in the grup config file manually,
>


It seems that during installation you may have installed the Grub boo-loader
on your Ubuntu partition's boot sector instead of over-writing the MBR. That
is why, the prevalent bootloader on the MBR, i.e., Fedora's GRUB , is what
you see and will have to manually link the Ubuntu bootloader with the Fedora
bootloader.

Another option is to re-install the Ubuntu GRUB on the MBR by booting from a
Live CD .

Thanks,
Raseel
http://raseel.in/blog
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