boot problems after installing fedora 11

Haneef Bashir darkfena313 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 03:54:00 UTC 2009


>> Are you getting a boot menu at all? How about posting your menu.lst
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>    What happened is: when he loaded Fedora IT set up grub over
>>the Ubuntu grub. Why he can't select Ubuntu from grub is the
>>mystery I think.
>

>
> Could be that the multiboot option was not uncommented. We've seen that
> a lot the last couple of days. The right entry may already be there if
> multiboot is disabled.  Or he may only need to copy the boot section
>  from the Ubuntu menu.lst to the Fedora menu.lst and run update-grub
>  from Fedora. That assumes that the device.map is the same. Or he could
> do vice versa and update grub from Ubuntu and get into both that way.
> At least we know the Ubuntu is aleady using grub2.
>
> John
>
i would like to thank everyone for their suggestions. i decided to see
if i could reinstall grub2 using the karmic like cd. grub2 was
installed but it wiped out everything event though i didn't select
that the root partition should be reformatted. but now i have another
issue that i will post.




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