Ok, here's the background.

I had tried many distros over the years but settled on Ubuntu for the last two or three, unfortunately the new version of Ubuntu (Natty) has prompted me to make the change again. To keep access to all my Ubuntu docs e.t.c. I installed Fedora 14 on a seperate partition and hey presto, there's the Ubuntu partition for me to read from, problem is that my laptop still just boots straight into Fedora, this is ok on my laptop but I wanted to make the switch on my desktop as well which has the wife's Windows partition on it, not being able to boot into that would cause eruptions!

The problem is that Fedora hasn't installed a Grub menu. On advice I typed this:-

[eric@Eric-Fedora ~]$ grub-install -v

and got:-

grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97)
[eric@Eric-Fedora ~]$

Hope this helps.

Fedora enables hiddenmenu as a (stupid) default. Just after the POST messages on boot, the screen will go blank - hit <Esc> to get the menu displayed.
Update /boot/grub/menu.lst to comment out (or delete) the hiddenmenu.

Just had a look at F15 - you might want to adjust the "timeout" as well - say 5 (seconds). Need to be root ...

Hi

Thanks for the help, I now have Grub on startup but it still doesn't list the Ubuntu partition, as I said it sees it fine from the desktop but still nothing in Grub.

I can not explain but will give you a tutorial to read. The problem is your ubuntu if it is 9.04 or newer has an ext4 file system with grub2 and fedora ext4 with grub legacy. I cheated and installed grub2 as my bootloader.

Notes About Grub

If you installed grub2 on the Ubuntu partition , you can chainload to it from Fedora's grub with an entry similar to this:However, it's likely that you installed Ubuntu's grub2 to the MBR, then overwrote it with Fedora's grub. In that case, an entry something like this: in Fedora's grub.conf file should do the trick.