Adding Ubuntu on another hard drive to grub?

[hxczach]

Hello

So a few days ago, i installed Fedora F9 onto my first hard drive, which has 2 partitions. Windows XP had been installed on it previously and everything went well. So last night i decided to install Ubuntu on my second hard drive (1 partition) and i would like to add it to the grub menu that was already installed with Fedora. I'm not sure what to put in terms of hdx's and root=/dev/...blah

And i installed Gutsy BTW

[logos34]

If ubuntu root is on the first partition of the other drive, then try this entry in Fedora menu.lst:


title Ubuntu 7.10
configfile (hd1,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst

[hxczach]

Well...
I can add&edit the menulist for grub within Fedora(because its bootable from the menu)
The problem im having is directing grub to the right disk and partiton of my ubuntu kernels.

[logos34]

run this and post the output:

# fdisk -l

[hxczach]

Yeah, fdisk commands don't work in fedora for some reason?

[Too Late]

Did you try fdisk as root? First you need to type 'su' or something like that (don't know about Fedora).

[logos34]

Yeah, fdisk commands don't work in fedora for some reason?

login as administrator--the '#' is the universal symbol for 'run as root/with admin privileges'

[hxczach]

Here you are.
I had to boot with my old kernel for some reason.(weird)
lol






Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd355d355

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 8904 71521348+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 8905 9729 6626812+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0000216b

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9729 78148161 7 HPFS/NTFS

[logos34]

uh, I don't see any linux/ubuntu partition on the other drive--or else the partition table is wrong and sdb1 is really an ext3 ubuntu /. It says ntfs.

Can you mount it in Fedora and see your ubuntu files? And what does Gparted show?

If sdb1 realy is ubuntu, the entry I gave you above should work '(hd1,0)'.

You might run TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) to fix the partition table.

[hxczach]

Yeah something went wrong when i formated for an install i think. Anyways, i decided to just dump fedora and install ubuntu on that partition (sda2). Thanks for your help though.
And yes, i could mount that disk and view it in fedora. But grub didnt recognize the messed up file system format.