One of the nice things about Grub2 is it has a decent command line (with autocompletion!), so you can easily play around and try booting Fedora from there. Some handy things you can do:
ls (hdTAB will list your drives, you should see (hd0) and (hd1) ls (hd1,TAB will list the partitions on drive 1, including the filesystem type. Hopefully it will indicate that (hd1,2) and (hd1,4) are linux partitions. (PS: What fs type are they?) ls (hd1,2)/ will list the files at the root of sdb2 ls (hd1,2)/vmliTAB should autocomplete to your Fedora kernel's path So then you can try booting with something like this: set root=(hd1,2) linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb4 initrd /initrd.img boot There are a couple of potential gotchas: If Fedora uses different names for vmlinuz and initrd.img, you'll need to use those of course—tab completion is your friend! your bios hates you then your disks will reorder randomly, the solution for which is using UUIDs instead of sdXY and (hdX,Y). Even if this doesn't work, it will hopefully at least give you a useful error message. If it does work, then you can edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom to include a menuentry for Fedora, and then Grub2 will be booting both distros. Dave
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