From: albert kao on
My computer has windows 7 and kubuntu 8.0.4 installed.
I install fedora 12 in the /dev/sda8 ext4 partition.
I did not install Fedora boot loader.
Currently the computer can dual boot windows 7 and kubuntu 8.0.4 with
the kubuntu boot loader.
I want to make the computer triple boot.
Executing the update-grub command in Kubuntu's Konsole do not detect
and add an entry for the Fedora installation in menu.lst.
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa7fbbb3a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1785 14336000 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 * 1785 1798 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1798 40634 311950680 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 40635 77825 298736707+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 40635 41132 4000153+ 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda6 41133 51078 79891213+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 51079 53510 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 53511 66352 103153333+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 66353 77825 92156841 83 Linux

Please help.
Thanks.
From: Bit Twister on
On Sun, 2 May 2010 13:45:27 -0700 (PDT), albert kao wrote:
> My computer has windows 7 and kubuntu 8.0.4 installed.
> I install fedora 12 in the /dev/sda8 ext4 partition.
> I did not install Fedora boot loader.
> Currently the computer can dual boot windows 7 and kubuntu 8.0.4 with
> the kubuntu boot loader.
> I want to make the computer triple boot.
> Executing the update-grub command in Kubuntu's Konsole do not detect
> and add an entry for the Fedora installation in menu.lst.

I do not have a kubuntu install handy.

edit kubuntu's /boot/grub/menu.lst, mount the fedora partition, see what you
can copy from fedora's menu.lst.

If nothing else, dupe kubuntu stanza, modify with fedora's partition
and kernel,initrd values.
As root, on kbuntu,

mkdir /fedora
mount -t auto /dev/sda8 /fedora

head /fedora/boot/grub/menu.lst

You may want to add an entry in your /etc/fstab for fedora.
Something like
/dev/sda8 /fedora ext3 user,noauto(,any_other_args_here) 0 0

From: albert kao on
On May 2, 5:12 pm, Bit Twister <BitTwis...(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 May 2010 13:45:27 -0700 (PDT), albert kao wrote:
> > My computer has windows 7 and kubuntu 8.0.4 installed.
> > I install fedora 12 in the /dev/sda8 ext4 partition.
> > I did not install Fedora boot loader.
> > Currently the computer can dual boot windows 7 and kubuntu 8.0.4 with
> > the kubuntu boot loader.
> > I want to make the computer triple boot.
> > Executing the update-grub command in Kubuntu's Konsole do not detect
> > and add an entry for the Fedora installation in menu.lst.
>
> I do not have a kubuntu install handy.
>
> edit kubuntu's /boot/grub/menu.lst, mount the fedora partition, see what you
> can copy from fedora's menu.lst.
>
> If nothing else, dupe kubuntu stanza, modify with fedora's partition
> and kernel,initrd values.
> As root, on kbuntu,
>
> mkdir /fedora
> mount -t auto /dev/sda8 /fedora
>
> head /fedora/boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> You may want to add an entry in your /etc/fstab for fedora.
> Something like
> /dev/sda8 /fedora ext3 user,noauto(,any_other_args_here) 0 0

# mount -t auto /dev/sda8 /fedora
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4'
From: Bit Twister on
On Sun, 2 May 2010 15:14:08 -0700 (PDT), albert kao wrote:
>
> # mount -t auto /dev/sda8 /fedora
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4'

Yep, I always do custom partitioning during installs and set
file system type to be compatible with my "Production" distribution.

That is probably why kubuntu did not create a selection for fedora.
From: Hans-Peter Diettrich on
Bit Twister schrieb:

>> # mount -t auto /dev/sda8 /fedora
>> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4'
>
> Yep, I always do custom partitioning during installs and set
> file system type to be compatible with my "Production" distribution.
>
> That is probably why kubuntu did not create a selection for fedora.

Does there exist a grub with menu options, for updating the boot menu?

I run into similar problems when I e.g. only want to change the default
boot system.

Another issue are multiple grub installations, existing on my machine.
What's the preferred grub installation place, independent from the
installation and replacement of the bootable systems? I can not identify
the currently used grub installation, and my openSuse can't as well - it
assumes that the grub installed during system installation still is
really in use, while the later Ubuntu installation installed and
activated its own bootloader. Furthermore the Ubuntu or openSuse-11
installation damaged the Vista bootloader, so that I have to repair
Vista first, then do another (dummy) Linux install to activate grub as
the primary bootloader again.

A solution to those bootloader woes were a live CD, of any Linux, that
can be used to figure out and update the current bootloader. Does such a
CD image exist already?

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