Install fedora and lost suse and debian

miros84 · 08-18-2009, 12:59 PM

Hello
I have Debian and Suse installed on my computer.
Debian in sda6
Suse in sda5
and Fedora in sda8
When I had only debian and Suse installed, everything was OK. I could add menu.lst o debian to menu.lst in suse, or suse menu.lst to debian. Also I have unifique ubuntu, debian and Mepis menu.lst, but now...
After instaling Fedora, I added suse and debian to my fedora menu.lst, i saved changes, and when I restart my PC, I have only Fedora to choose...
What could be wrong with Fedora??

mobinskariya · 08-18-2009, 01:04 PM

i think in fedora there is grub.conf instead of menu.lst(please confirm)??try adding those lines to grub.conf

ronlau9 · 08-18-2009, 01:57 PM

Before Fedora is loading hit a key and see if you have the other distro
you add in the menu.lst

miros84 · 08-18-2009, 02:33 PM

I restored my grub debian menu with SGD, but now I have debian, suse, but I have not Fedora.
Can I add fedora to my menu.lst?
Fedora is installed in sda8
Any advice?
Which lines I have to add?

John VV · 08-18-2009, 04:15 PM

fedora's anaconda installer is not good at seeing other linux installs
and seeing as you reinstalled grub from debain just add fedora to grub.conf ( menu.lis )
in fedora menu.lis is a link to grub.conf

miros84 · 08-19-2009, 01:27 AM

Ok, but how can I do that? What I have to put to debian menu.lst?

John VV · 08-19-2009, 03:46 AM

like you would for any OS in the grub.conf ( menu.lis )

Code:

title Fedora_11
	rootnoverify (hd0,8)
	chainloader +1

ronlau9 · 08-19-2009, 04:13 AM

Fedora is installed on sda8 is that not (hd0,7) ?

miros84 · 08-19-2009, 09:34 AM

Hello
I tried

Code:

title Fedora_11
	rootnoverify (hd0,8)
	chainloader +1

and

Code:

title Fedora_11
	rootnoverify (hd0,7)
	chainloader +1

but no results.
I cannot boot
other advice?

ronlau9 · 08-19-2009, 09:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by miros84

Hello
I tried

Code:

title Fedora_11
	rootnoverify (hd0,8)
	chainloader +1

and

Code:

title Fedora_11
	rootnoverify (hd0,7)
	chainloader +1

but no results.
I cannot boot
other advice?

You're boot partition of Fedora 11 is it ext3 or ext4 .
GRUB can not read from ext4.
If it is ext3 and you still have a menu.lst

Try
title Fedora 11
root (hd0,7)
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst

miros84 · 08-19-2009, 10:50 AM

Hello
Thank you for helping
When I installed Fedora, Fedora asked me insall it on ext4
I didnot want, but....
Si, I have Fedora installed on ext4
No way to boot Fedora then?

ronlau9 · 08-19-2009, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by miros84

Hello
Thank you for helping
When I installed Fedora, Fedora asked me insall it on ext4
I didnot want, but....
Si, I have Fedora installed on ext4
No way to boot Fedora then?

Well you can do two thinks reinstalled Fedora /boot = ext3 rest ext4
Second us LILO and not GRUB as boot loader it seems that LILO can read from ext4.

miros84 · 08-20-2009, 12:43 PM

Thank you ronlau9.
I made that and everything was OK
Just a question

I have debian on sda5 that is ext3
I have installed fedora boot on sda6, that is ext3
I have installed fedora gnu/linux on sda7

Then I added fedora to sda5/boot/grub/menu.lst

I added it:

Code:

title Fedora
chainloader (hd0,5)

hd(0,5) means sda6 where I have something on the first 512 bytes, because I read about, that when I put chainloader, PC reads the first 512 sectors of the partition. In this case is sda6
And then it boots Fedora on sda7

Do you understand
Then I have
On sda5 - my grub menu
On sda7 - my Fedora files
On sda6 - ???? What I have there???

ronlau9 · 08-21-2009, 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by miros84

Thank you ronlau9.
I made that and everything was OK
Just a question

I have debian on sda5 that is ext3
I have installed fedora boot on sda6, that is ext3
I have installed fedora gnu/linux on sda7

Then I added fedora to sda5/boot/grub/menu.lst

I added it:

Code:

title Fedora
chainloader (hd0,5)

hd(0,5) means sda6 where I have something on the first 512 bytes, because I read about, that when I put chainloader, PC reads the first 512 sectors of the partition. In this case is sda6
And then it boots Fedora on sda7

Do you understand
Then I have
On sda5 - my grub menu
On sda7 - my Fedora files
On sda6 - ???? What I have there???

What do you mean by 512 bytes the MBR ?