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From: albert kao on 2 May 2010 16:45 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 2 May 2010 17:12 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 2 May 2010 18:14 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 2 May 2010 18:28 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 2 May 2010 21:06
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? DoDi |