fedora after ubuntu

I installed Fedora on a spare partition; my system already has Ubuntu. I asked the Fedora installer not to install grub… Then tried for 2 hours to get the Ubuntu grub to load Fedora… Here’s how I got it to work…

• do a sudo fdisk -l to see your partition table, and mount the fedora partition
• select a random file from fedora’s /boot directory
• enter the grub prompt (sudo grub) and find the name bios gives to this partition, by typing find /boot/_chosen_file_, where _chosen_file_ is the file you chose in the previous step
• you’ll get something like (hdx,y). this is the name your bios gives this partition (e.g. hd0,1 means 1st disk, 2nd partition)
• add an entry to ubuntu’s grub menu like this:

title		Fedora9
root		(hd0,3)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 root=UUID=c8eee85e-7de5-421d-bb18-aadd1892bcc9 ro rhgb
initrd		/boot/initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img

~ by azimout on June 30, 2008.