Grub - Does fedora automatically install a bootloader like grub? or...
 

Hi, I was wondering if Fedora Core 6 automatically installed grub or lilo and configured it. I currently dual boot Ubuntu and Windows XP off of the same HDD, on two computers, I am cosidering putting fedora on one of the computers. When i installed ubuntu all i did was install it after windows and grub was automatically installed and configured. My question is does fedora install do something similar or do i have to install grub or lilo seperately?

Fedora will take care of it providing you tell it do so during install. If you want to keep Ubuntu, however, it may be worthwhile telling it not to install a bootloader and simply add Fedora to your current grub (although you could also install a fresh grub and then add Ubuntu to that, of course).

Ok, i have gone somewhat through fedora installation, (now i see the grub thing) it seems Internet is required to install fedora (c6), is this true?
-p.s. thanks for the reply!

NO!
Internet is required to apply updates, which can be done after re-booting. As for configuring the boot menu, you can make your Ubuntu the "master" grub.conf. During installation of Fedora, do as Jay73 suggests and install the boot loader to the / or /boot partition depending on whether or not you created and included a /boot partition, (not the MBR /dev/hda). Then boot into Ubuntu and mount the Fedora / or /boot partition and navigate to /boot/grub/menu.lst, copy and paste the default entry for Fedora into /boot/grub/menu.lst in Ubuntu and save it. Then re-boot, Fedora should now be in the list.

Or alternatively, install GRUB to Fedora's / partition, and in Ubuntu edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add the following line:
Where x is the partition number of the Fedora / partition. For example, if you install Fedora on hda2, then x would be 1.

This way, if Fedora installs a Kernel update, then you don't need to worry about it. Also, if you decide to install another distro in Fedora's place, you just need to change the title in Ubuntu's /boot/grub/menu.lst.

I hope this helps
--Ian

Hmmm!
That's a way better suggestion. Especially since Fedora does change the kernel as often as I do dishes.

Can i do something like that for Ubuntu, so i do not have a big list of kernels, and so i don't have to comment them? -thanks by the way!

I have a page Here about how I set my computer up to multiboot between several distros.

Basically, I set GRUB up in its own partition (mounted as /grub in each distro). Each distro then has its own GRUB or LILO boot loader installed in its root partition. The "master GRUB" then just has a series of chainloader statements, pointing to the boot loader of each distro.

--Ian

Cool, thanks for the insight,

need a kernel for GRUB to load my Fedora 6
 

I'm having problems trying to duel boot Fedora 6 onto an external with Windows XP on the internal hard drive. It doesn't work when I try to boot from the external from bios, and when I try to set up GRUB as my default I keep getting a message that it's missing a kernel(s). I'm totally new to this so I have no idea what kernel(s) I need to get GRUB to do it's thing. Any help or info you can give me would be greatly appreciated since every FAQ page I've gone to rattles off a string of Greek and I havn't got a hope in knowing if it's even talking about what I need...

Please help...

You will probably need to modify the MBR in windows, and use that to boot your FEDORA, you will get more help/exposure if you make a NEW thread... good luck.