[Tfug] Fedora 10 install question

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

On Tue, October 6, 2009 1:19 pm, Dennis McCormick wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:10 PM,  <earljviolet at deserthowler.com> wrote:
>> I have Ubuntu 8.04 installed on 1/2 of a 40 GB hard drive.  I attempted
>> to
>> install Fedora 10 on the unused portion of this disk.  Fedora installed
>> fine and works OK.  The problem is I cannot log into Ubuntu from grub as
>> Fedora gives me no choices.
>>
>> I could not edit menu.lst.
>>
>> Google offered no solution.
>>
>> As my plan was to test-drive Fedora, my solution is to install Debian on
>> that and consider my Fedora experiment as a failure.
>>
>> Are there any other suggestions?
>>
>> Earl

> Earl, for Fedora the file to edit is /boot/grub/grub.conf. You do have
> to log in as root in a terminal to run an editor. It would be easiest
> to mount the Ubuntu partition and then copy the latest entry lines
> from /boot/grub/menu.lst and paste them at the bottom of the grub.conf
> file. There's also the grub command "configfile" that is handy to boot
> multiple distros from one master grub menu.
>
> Dennis McCormick

Dennis, thanks.  That was the file I needed to edit.  It works!!

Earl