boot problems after installing fedora 11

[Haneef Bashir]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Haneef Bashir <darkfena313 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
sda8 is just for saving big files