Ubuntu Installation :: Fedora 13 Not Recognized By Grub2?
Sep 3, 2010
I was installing Fedora 13 on my computer as I need it for a class I'm taking but wanted to keep Ubuntu (10.04) as well. So now the setup is: Windows 7 on sda, Ubuntu and Fedora on sdb.I did not install the bootloader when Fedora 13 prompted to. Running sudo os-prober and sudo update-grub only finds Windows 7.I know I can manually add it in 40_custom but have no idea how to go ab out that. The output of my fdisk -l is as follows:
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Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
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Mar 7, 2010
i initilally installed ubuntu 9.10 then installed windows 7 ,then i recovered grub2 using livecd as told in the post [URL] i did "sudo update-grub" and got windows 7 menu entry but when i select that entry windows 7 does not load but the grub2 is reloaded again.
i cant boot to windows 7.
Windows 7 have 100 mb partition "System Reserved" the grub2 points to that partition but still windows 7 not loaded.
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3c3a81f5
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May 17, 2010
I went through so many post but I haven't found the proper answer yet hope you have an Idea1. Grub2 saves only Linux OS as last selected no Windows OS2.It is possible to boot into a cdrom (drive)?
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Apr 24, 2010
I installed Fedora 12 on my second drive.
Xubuntu 9.10 is on my master drive, and I use it to install/update grub.
When I installed Fedora, I answered "NO" to installing a boot loader.
After install, I booted Xubuntu and ran update-grub, grub couldn't find (apparently) my new fedora install.
I've tried adding it to /etc/grub.d/40_custom, and when I list /boot/grub/grub.conf, it appears to have added Fedora to the bottom of the menu.
When I boot, it doesn't stop at the grub screen, indicating only one installation of linux.
Here are the pertinent file listings, can you see where I've gone wrong?
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dav@dav-desktop:~$ cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
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Jul 11, 2011
I installed Fedora 15, which was my first real departure from Debian based Linux OSs. I absolutely love the new Gnome 3, and was able to configure F15 to work as I wanted it to. On rebooting I realized that there was no boot loader screen, that F15 just booted and didn't give me a choice as to which OS I wanted to use. Eventually I was able to configure grub to let me see the boot loader and added my old boot loader as a choice. This worked well, maybe not a perfect solution, but it worked. This weekend I installed LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) to another HDD. LMDE uses grub2 and after the install F15 was not recognized.
Two questions: Is there a way for grub2 to see F15? or Can F15 be installed using grub2? I really don't mind re-installing from scratch.
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Jan 31, 2010
I was in the process of installing Fedora 12 when it came to the "Operating Systems List". Here it recognised only Windows and none of the other 4 Linux distros already installed. Looking at the option to "add" and then given the drop down list for each partition, can someone tell me what to enter in the LABEL box for these partitions, or how to find what to enter in these boxes to enable these distros to be booted?
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Nov 29, 2009
I booted from fedora 12 cd, My problem is the install does not recognize my ide disk.
lspci -> ide interface vt82c586a
fdisk -l /dev/sda1 swap -approx 2g
/dev/sda2 linux 20 g
/dev/sda3 linux 54 g
lshal -> pata_via
I tested the disk with seagate diag it reports no errors. I used Partion manager and created three partions & formatted them. Other distros see the disk , I am trying crunch bang it installed with no fuss. I have googled & looked in known issues pages.
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Sep 17, 2010
Currently running F10 on a RAID1 software raid array in Linux (not hardware or BIOS). I used the F13 install disk to boot and selected install/upgrade. Problem is that the Anaconda portion never sees the RAID device.
I tried passing the "nodmraid" argument to the kernel during boot. Other research suggested that the auto=md switch should be appended to the mdadm.conf file. No results from either solution.
Anaconda does not see the /dev/md0 or /dev/md1 and consequently it only offers an installation option.
What I would prefer is to upgrade.
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Mar 20, 2011
I installed fedora on one of my three hard drives and it seems that something went wrong with the other two. Fedora recognizes the other drives but it seems the data on those drives is not there anymore. The below images are screen shots from my computer folder and disk utility program. I tried to look through Fedora documentation but I did not find a solution to my case.
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May 28, 2011
I currently have windows 7 installed. There are two partitions. The OS is on one and the other one is used for data. Is there anyway this could be a problem?
The only readable error I have gotten is from suse. Said something about an unreadable file system. All of the others have just hung at some point during the live cd boot.
I have now tried live cds of the following and none have worked.
Its a stock alienware that I bought 3 years ago. The only change I have made is updating the ram, which I bought directly from dell to make sure it was compatible. The alienware is an intel core 2 duo, 4 gigs of ram, 160gb HD, dual sli nvidia graphics cards. not sure about the mother board, could figure it out if its necessary. Is there any reason the hardware wouldn't be supported?
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Feb 12, 2011
I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my computer which Windows 7 and Fedora 14 have already installed. After rebooting, the menu list of Ubuntu which is grub2 does not contain an option for Fedora 14.
I typed sudo /sbin/fdisk -l and the result is:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xae33e99a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 13055 104754176 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 13055 22887 78976562+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 22887 60802 304551937 5 Extended
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5 46838 46901 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 46901 60802 111654912 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda7 22887 41123 146484224 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda8 41123 46716 44920832 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 46716 46837 973824 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
My Ubuntu partition is /dev/sda8 and my Fedora partition is /dev/sda6. Grub2 seems to be more complicate than grub1.
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May 22, 2011
I have just converted from using Arch Linux for the last year to using Fedora 14. So far I have been having a blast but I really enjoy the idea of putting /boot inside an LVM container and that is how I had my Arch system built. So I wanted to do a learning experience and did a standard install on my 60GB SSD. Which ended up with a 500MB /boot outside LVM, a ~30GB / and ~30GB /home inside LVM. Now I really like spreading things out onto different LV's that I can resize but for now I am focusing on getting /boot and grub2 working. So after the install I did a complete backup with Clonezilla to a spare drive and set to work. I shrunk /home's LV to 10GB to give me plenty of space to work with and created boot_lv inside LVM at 128MB.
So here is my first question:After 2 hours trolling through the forums, documentation and blogs I believe that the ideal size for any /boot is 512MB due to during pre-upgrades Fedora loads a bunch of data to /boot. Would I be correct in both assuming this size and the reasoning behind this?After creating this LV I did another Clonezilla clone of the drive and got back into the Fedora install. From their I moved over all the data in /boot to my boot_lv mounted on /mnt/newboot and unmounted /boot. Then mounted /boot_lv in its place and installed grub2 and gettext ( <--- I think? It needed something like this) and did a grub2-install, grub2-mkconfig and grub2-setup all with commands I do not remember nor documented due to how many changes I have made and times I had to re-image the box from messup's and failures. So in the end can anyone point me in the direction of a nice guide on putting Fedora 14 completely in LVM which seems not to exist in Google and Fedora Forums ( to my knowledge.) Even a set of commands for taking a fresh install and doing.
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I want to load grub2 from grub4dos.I want to load directly the grub2 core. I know how to load first 512 bytes from some patition by chainloader and load grub2, but what I need is to load directly grub2 core without passing by bootstriping code (first 512 bytes).So, my first boot manager is grub4dos, then I can load grub2 and later I load Ubuntu. But I think I have to edit --set-root
What I dont know is how.
In hdd 0,7 (sda8) I have Ubuntu 10.10 and /boot/grub/core.img is in sda8 (hd0.7)
I tried this way:
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title grub2
find --set-root /boot/grub/core.img
kernel /boot/grub/core.img
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Jun 2, 2010
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Should also note that the HDD with testing on it is also recognized when connected via the external usb adapter, while booted from alternative distro/HDD.
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I have decided to dual boot again because I found a old hard drive laying around.
primary drive: sata 500 gb
ubuntu 10.4 64 bit installed with
boot
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secondary drive: 120 gb ide drive with xp installed. xp was installed first and wrote the mbr to sda1. I then installed ubuntu 10.4 and it overwrote mbr on sda with grub2. I have tried every combination of the 40_custom script for xp I have found here on the forums but to no avail. The 30_OS probe never seems to see it either. Grub 2 will not see xp. I have it in the menu from the custom_40 but it just reboots the system when I choose it. Any advice is greatly appreciated as I am ready to go back to legacy grub which only took 5 minutes to dual boot last time I did dual boot. I want to give grub2 a chance, since it supposed to be better, but I am getting frustrated.
Here is the output from the boot info script.
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #1 for /boot/grub.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
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