Hi,

Could someone help with this problem please?

I have an old computer that I use for trying out software and other things before putting them on my newer machine so as to avoid irreparable damage.

The machine has 2 hard discs; the first disc contains Windows and I wanted to use the second disc for Linux. I installed Fedora 14 on the second disc and followed this with Ubuntu 10.10.

After I installed Fedora I re-booted and had a choice between booting into Windows or Fedora. After adding Ubuntu I assumed that Grub2 would pick up both Windows and Fedora and add them to the grub menu but instead, the grub menu only contained the options to boot Fedora or Ubuntu.

I tried running 'sudo update-grub' but got the following message:

"cannot access /var/lib/os-prober/mount/boot
Boot: No such file or directory"

When I had a look in /os-prober all that was there was a file called 'labels' and when I opened it it consisted of the one line "Fedora 1"

It looks to me, who doesn't know a lot about grub2, that something is missing from grub and had wondered whether to re-install it or whether doing so would be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.

Can anyone help, please?

Looks like you installed grub2 into your Windows system. Google found this pretty quickly.

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Are you still able to boot both fedora & ubuntu?
Is grub within 1st 128G of hdd?
If the answer is yes then boot into ubuntu & mount wins then run
sudo update-grub

Hello syg00,

Thanks for your message. You were absolutely right; I followed the link and renamed /boot and it worked. I had also fiddled around with the file 40_custom but probably didn't get the syntax correct

Thank you too EDDY1 I tried your suggestion too because I was able to boot either Fedora or Ubuntu but it didn't work. I still got the error message after typing 'sudo update-grub' in Ubuntu so that was when I tried syg00's suggestion