grub not showing ubuntu partition

[Tom H]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:03:52 -0400
> Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:12:04 -0400
>> > Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Actually that wouldn’t have been much use as Fedora appears to use Grub Legacy and not Grub2.
>> >> > I don’t think Grub legacy can boot Ubuntu.
>> >>
>> >> Why not?
>> >>
>> > Isn’t there some sort of problem with Ext4 or UUIDs.  I’m probably wrong on this and it has been sorted by now though,
>>
>> No idea about UUIDs because I usually use LVM so I wouldn't know
>> whether Fedora's grub1 has a problem with them.
>>
>> Fedora's grub1 has no problem with ext4 because it was patched to
>> recognize ext4 for F12.
>>
> I didn’t realise that until I installed Fedora, I thought a separate /boot partition was used.

Fedora defaults to having a separate /boot. For F11, / was ext4 and
/boot was ext3 for grub1. I can only assume that for F15, / will be
btrfs and /boot will be ext4 if grub1 doesn't add support for btrfs
before its release.