boot problems after installing fedora 11

[Tom H]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Haneef Bashir <darkfena313 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Thanks. I was curious whether it was a HUGE /boot! :)