Re: unbale accesses fedora
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:26:27 +0530, rajib wrote: I install fedora 13 then i install ubuntu 9.04 in a separate partition but my problem is I cant open fedora You really need to explain _where_ you installed the boot loaders for Fedora 13 _and_ Ubuntu 9.04. One can install them in more than once place. Where exactly is important. If you've overwritten Fedora's boot loader with Ubuntu's, you will need to use either some advanced commands in Ubuntu's boot loader to locate and load Fedora's boot partition and the grub.conf file, or a rescue-disk to boot into Fedora in order to (re-)install its boot loader. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: unbale accesses fedora
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:56 PM, rajib samal rajibsa...@live.in wrote: I install fedora 13 then i install ubuntu 9.04 in a separate partition but my problem is I cant open fedora HI Rajib, Most likely, when you installed Ubuntu it overwrote the partition which holds your Fedora kernel and boot loader configuration (mounted to /boot). As others have mentioned, it's hard to tell you exactly however, without getting more details. Honestly, the easiest way to fix it, is probably to re-install Fedora - but that will break Ubuntu without some manual trickery. Dual booting Linux distros can be tricky, but not impossible. To fix this you would need to do something like: * In Ubuntu, activate the Fedora LVM partition (sudo vgscan ; sudo vgchange -ay) * Mount the fedora partition * Mount bind /proc, /dev and /sys to the Fedora mount point * Copy your /etc/resolv.conf to Fedora mount point * Change root (chroot) into the Fedora mount point * Tell yum to re-install the kernel * Tell dracut to re-build your initramfs * Exit chroot * Copy the kernel and initramfs to Ubuntu's /boot partition * Edit Ubuntu's /boot/grub/grub.conf and add Fedora, telling it to load Fedora's kernel and initramfs from Ubuntu's /boot partition, but set the root to the Fedora LVM * Umount proc, sys, dev, and Fedora mount points. * Reboot and select Fedora from the grub menu at boot As you can see, it's pretty tricky if you don't know what you're doing :-) In the future, if you want to dualboot Linux distros you need to have separate /boot partitions for them. You can only boot one system's GRUB config, so it will have to either find and add the other distro (some can do this), or you let the other update its GRUB config and manually copy it and paste it into the other. Cheers, Chris -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: unbale accesses fedora
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:37:39 +0530, rajib samal wrote: i have installed fedora13 then iinstalled ubuntu 9.04 after that i am unable to open fedora help me Please do not post webgibberish (html) to this list. Your email software must have a way to turn it off. You can still run Ubuntu, right? You might want to try launching ubuntu and running gparted and/or qtparted -- WITHOUT telling either to DO anything. Just look! You want to make sure the Fedora install is still there. If so, use your ubuntu browser to look at http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ and http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Main_Page, from which you can download and burn a CD that will both help you, and also give you good explanations of what it does. If gparted a/o qtparted shows *only* ubuntu installed, you'll want to reinstall Fedora -- being very careful this time to make it use only free space (to keep it from wiping ubuntu away). -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: unbale accesses fedora
On 26 August 2010 13:59, Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:37:39 +0530, rajib samal wrote: i have installed fedora13 then iinstalled ubuntu 9.04 after that i am unable to open fedora help me You can still run Ubuntu, right? You might want to try launching ubuntu and running gparted and/or qtparted -- WITHOUT telling either to DO anything. Just look! You want to make sure the Fedora install is still there. If so, use your ubuntu browser to look at http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ and http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Main_Page, from which you can download and burn a CD that will both help you, and also give you good explanations of what it does. If gparted a/o qtparted shows *only* ubuntu installed, you'll want to reinstall Fedora -- being very careful this time to make it use only free space (to keep it from wiping ubuntu away). I think the main problem/complication here is Ubuntu uses GRUB2 where as Fedora only supports GRUB or in updated terminology, GRUB Legacy. However the OP should have been able to install Ubuntu without overwriting Fedora's /boot if the partitioning was done correctly. The easiest partitioning scheme should be something like this, /boot - for Ubuntu (about 200 - 500 MB) / - for Ubuntu /boot - for Fedora (about 500 MB) / - for Fedora And chainload to boot Fedora. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: unbale accesses fedora
On 08/25/2010 04:07 PM, rajib samal wrote: i have installed fedora13 then iinstalled ubuntu 9.04 after that i am unable to open fedora help me how i modify grub file tell me in details Insufficient information. Did your Unbuntu installation overwrite your fedora installation? Or did you install them into separate partitions? If separate partitions, then which ones are they? -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@rcn.com cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: unbale accesses fedora
On 08/25/2010 01:23 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 08/25/2010 04:07 PM, rajib samal wrote: i have installed fedora13 then iinstalled ubuntu 9.04 after that i am unable to open fedora help me how i modify grub file tell me in details Insufficient information. Did your Unbuntu installation overwrite your fedora installation? Or did you install them into separate partitions? If separate partitions, then which ones are they? I suspect that when you installed Ubuntu, you also installed the ubuntu Grub loader, clobbering Fedora's grub loader - so now, when you boot, ubuntu's grub loader is configured to only boot Ubuntu. If this is the case, then: You will have some work to do, and I hope someone with more time that I have, will explain to you how to edit some files in /boot/grub to let you boot either OS. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
RE: unbale accesses fedora
I install fedora 13 then i install ubuntu 9.04 in a separate partition but my problem is I cant open fedora -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: unbale accesses fedora
On 08/25/2010 08:56 PM, rajib samal wrote: I install fedora 13 then i install ubuntu 9.04 in a separate partition but my problem is I cant open fedora Look, people come here for help when they can provide detailed information about what they did. Seeing that you are a newbie, and for people to help you, you have to provide the minutest details of every mouse click and every key stroke you made when you installed fedora and when you installed Ubuntu. You will need to provide all partitioning information about your disk(s) also. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
