boot problems after installing fedora 11

[Haneef Bashir]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Haneef Bashir wrote:
>> i had installed ubuntu 9.10 on my hard drive then installed fedora 11.
>> now i cant get into ubuntu and my computer boots right into fedora. i
>> tried using super grub but up until now it hast worked. here is how i
>> have my disk partitioned.
>> Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1   *           1        3930    31567693+  83  Linux
>> /dev/sda2            3931       19457   124720627+   5  Extended
>> /dev/sda5            3931        4706     6233188+  83  Linux
>> /dev/sda6            4707        5473     6160896   83  Linux
>> /dev/sda7            5474        5613     1124518+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
>> /dev/sda8            5614       19457   111201898+  83  Linux
>> sda1 is the home folder. sda5 is ubuntu and sda6 is fedora.
>
> So:
> sda1 = /home
> sda5 = / (KK)
> sda6 = / (F11)
> sda7 = swap
> sda8 = ?
>
> F11 will have installed and activated grub 1, which does not recognize
> ext4. So if sda5 is an ext4 partition, grub 1 will not detect it.
>
> (1) Try to chainload KK's grub 2. I think that you will need to use
> "rootnoverify" rather than "root".
>
> rootnoverify (hd0,4)
> chainloader +1
> boot
>
> OR
>
> (2) Run
> yum install grub2
> to install grub 2 on your F11 partition.
i thought that might be the problem but during install i chose ext3 as
the format for the drive so there wouldn't be any compatibility
issues. ill try installing grub 2