I had Kubuntu 10.04 alongside Maverick Meerkat, and I decided to try out Fedora 14. At first, everything worked fine. Then one day it booted straight into Fedora, bypassing the bootloader screen. I backed up everything on the other two partitions, and then tried to reinstall everything, starting with Fedora this time. When I rebooted, sure enough, it booted straight into Fedora, bypassing the bootloader.

Is there something I am doing wrong? Why is it that when I install anything but Fedora, the bootloader works fine, but when Fedora shows up, it just boots straight into Fedora every time?

When you installed fedora you could have chosen not to install grub (or install Fedora's grub to its root partition instead of the MBR) as ubuntu's os-prober will pick up fedora's kernels.

All you really have to do is to reinstall grub2 from the LiveCD.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Gr...0from%20LiveCD

With boot loader are you using Ubuntu or Fedora ?
Fedora do has a hidden menu .
It does not show you the menu unless you press the Esc key before it actually boots Fedora .
If you do so you have a change to choose Ubuntu
A other option is to make menu unhidden

I'm not sure whether the boot loader is using Ubuntu or Fedora. When Fedora is installed, though, it goes straight into the Fedora loading screen. It's like it takes over. I recall one day pushing F1 during the loading screen and it showed text instead of the image, so I'll try and see if I can press Esc to unhide the bootloader. Optimally, I would like to make the menu unhidden by default. How do I go about doing that?

I'll also try to reinstall grub using the live CD and see how that goes over. Does it matter which LiveCD I use to reinstall Grub as long as it has Grub 2 on it?

Thanks everyone!

Not if you use:

METHOD 2 - Copy GRUB 2 Files from the Installed Partition

I don't follow. Copy them where?

I believe the Method 2 andrewthomas is referring to is in the link in his initial post. Got to that web site and scroll down a little and you will see Method 2. I've always had success with the first method, try whichever.

Fedora is notorious for not detecting other Linux systems. I've never installed Fedora and had it detect another Linux system and have seen numerous posts on numerous forum indicating this is the case but it always detects the windows. No idea why.