Installing Fedora and keep my previous bootloader

[Archbalt]

Hi.

I have the Ubuntu 9.10 installed and another partition where I want to have Fedora.
But I would like to install it without messing up with the Grub 2 bootloader that I already have there.

Is it possible to install Fedora and then add it to Grub 2? If so, how can I do that?

[Sagitter]

Originally Posted by Archbalt

Hi.

I have the Ubuntu 9.10 installed and another partition where I want to have Fedora.
But I would like to install it without messing up with the Grub 2 bootloader that I already have there.

Is it possible to install Fedora and then add it to Grub 2? If so, how can I do that?

Yes, during installation set to ignore grub installation.
After to have finish, you can install grub2 and edit grub.conf to set boot information for the new system.

Remind you that grub for fedora 11 doesn't recognize /boot partition formatted on ext4 of Fedora 12.

[Archbalt]

Nice knowing that. Thanks! : )

But the grub2 is already installed, so how should I edit it in order to add Fedora?
(I could only found some instructions about grub, but seems that grub2 works differently)

[Sagitter]

Show me grub.conf, please.

Also:

# fdisk -l
# blkid -L

[bob]

There's a lot of info here that you may want to review: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=232875

[Archbalt]

Sagitter,
I found a file called "grub.cfg". Is it the same?

And the codes didn't worked on the terminal.. should I have put some partition name after them? (I'm trying to learn a bit of command line, but still in the very beginning.

PS: The original name of the attached file is just "grub.cfg". I just add ".conf" to be able to upload.

And I'll have a look at the link, Bob.

Thank you both!

[bob]

Here's some VERY pertinent info: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3106368.0 Read the section: Differences between GRUB legacy and Grub2

[Archbalt]

I did it! Just installed Fedora without bootloader, started Ubuntu, and then run the "10_linux" script followed by the "sudo update-grub" command. Then Grub 2 just find the distro automatically!

I installed the Fedora with KDE, and its great! The only problem is the too little space I had left available.

But really thank you guys!

[XrzzoX]

hy, excuse me for my english
i have done exactly the same things "installed Fedora (12) without bootloader, started Ubuntu, and then run the "10_linux" script followed by the "sudo update-grub" command. Then Grub 2 just find the distro automatically!"

but when i open the pc and boot fedora it blocks and the following script comes out:
VFS: cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown-block (0,0)
please append a correct "root" boot option; here are the available partition:
kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper not tainted 2.6.31.5 - 127 .fc12.i686 #1

[<c0764636>] ? printk+0x14/0x16
[<c0764580>] panic + 0x3e/0xe0
[<c0989ca3>] mount_block_root+0x1f1/0x211
[<c0409c9c>] ? sys_mknod + 0x18/0x1a
[<c0989d0f>] mount_root + 0x4c/0x54
[<c0989e5c>] prepare _namespace + 0x145/0x16c
[<c09893b4>] kernel_init+0x1de/0x1ed
[<c09891d6>] ? kernel_init + 0x0/0x1ed
[<c04041a7>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

my fstab seems to be set correctly

i thought that this problem was caused by the fact that i have not installed the bootloader in a separate partition how this thread explain: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=223206

but if your fedora works there shuld be another problem...
if you can gelp me or someone can help me i would be grateful!

[JK3MP]

Glad to hear you figured it out. =) Was gonna suggest just manually adding it, but i guess that works. :P

[XrzzoX]

i have solved the problem installing also the bootloader, but when i start the pc appears ubuntu's bootloader