grub not showing ubuntu partition

[Tanmoy Chatterjee]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Tanmoy Chatterjee <tachchot007 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > My hard disk partition is as following -
> > /dev/sda1 - ext3 - ubuntu installed here
> > /dev/sda3 - ext4 - /boot for Fedora13
>
> /dev/sda4 - ext4 - remaining partition of Fedora13(/, /home, /var )
> > /dev/sda2 - extended - created when I installed Ubuntu 9.04
> > /dev/sda5 - linux-swap - created with ubuntu installation
>
> > To Tom H
> > Thank you very much for your suggestion - kindly help me with the cli
> > solution.
>
> Just remembered that I never replied to the above.
>
> I've never used Fedora's grub1 to boot Ubuntu but this should work.
>
> Booted into F13, run "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" followed by "ls -l /mnt/boot".
>
> You will have the filenames of your Ubuntu vmlinuz and initrd files.
>
> Run "blkid -c /dev/null /dev/sda1".
>
> You will have the UUID of sda1.
>
> Edit as root "/etc/grub.conf" (it is a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf" and
> add:
>
> title Ubuntu 10.04
> root hd(0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz_from_ls root=UUID=uuid_from_blkid ro
> initrd /boot/initrd.img_from_ls
>
> If "root=UUID=..." doesn't work, try
> "root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/uuid_from_blkid" or "root=/dev/sda1"
>
I have posted this question on Fedora user mailing list and Fedora forum and
have got the answer and solved my problem - I will post details of it
shortly.
Thanks to everybody -

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