boot problems after installing fedora 11

[Tom H]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Haneef Bashir <darkfena313 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:51 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
>>
> i installed grub2 and nothing happened. i dont really know how to do
> chainloading but ill try.

Please post the contents of /boot/grub/grub.cfg
and please mount /dev/sda5 and post an ls of /mountpoint/boot