Where's My Bootloader?

metatron · #1 6th April 2009, 10:22 PM

I just installed F11 and I did choose during installation to install Grub but alas, it's not there. When I boot up, it just boots straight into Fedora. Thinking back, even though I did choose Grub, It never asked me what I wanted to call my "Other" OS, which it usually does. Any idea what happened? Can I still install it now?

***glennzo*** · #2 6th April 2009, 10:29 PM

Yeah you can install it now. You say it "just boots straight into Fedora". Does that mean that it boots into Fedora 10 (assuming that is installed too) or does it boot to Fedora 11 giving you no option to choose Other (Windows I assume) ?

zoinksbob · #3 6th April 2009, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by metatron

I just installed F11 and I did choose during installation to install Grub but alas, it's not there. When I boot up, it just boots straight into Fedora. Thinking back, even though I did choose Grub, It never asked me what I wanted to call my "Other" OS, which it usually does. Any idea what happened? Can I still install it now?

If it boots into Fedora, then the Grub bootloader is installed. I think what you mean is that it doesn't give you a menu to boot into whatever other OS you have...? If that's it, then you can add your other OS into the Grub menu by editing /boot/grub/menu.list
I know it's a pain, and the installer should have done this for you, but at least this will let you get to your other OS.

Is that what you're talking about, or am I misreading your post?

metatron · #4 6th April 2009, 11:39 PM

Re: Glenn
Right into F11... I wiped out F10 somewhat by accident so I just installed F11 Beta on this machine. I have this and XP.
Re: Bob Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I don't get a menu. I'll give this a shot when I get home from school.

***glennzo*** · #5 6th April 2009, 11:43 PM

The the problem is that the time out is set to 0. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and change that to 15 or 30 or something. Get that straight and then we can get your Windows entry settled.

zoinksbob · #6 6th April 2009, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by metatron

Re: Glenn
Right into F11... I wiped out F10 somewhat by accident so I just installed F11 Beta on this machine. I have this and XP.
Re: Bob Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I don't get a menu. I'll give this a shot when I get home from school.

Assuming your XP partition is the first one and Fedora comes after that, you should be able to add the following to your menu.list file:
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

That should allow you to boot XP. You may also need to git rid of the line
hiddenmenu
if it exists.

#7 7th April 2009, 12:27 AM

to get to your windows partition in Grub. when you see fedora kernel right at that time press the down arrow an you'll be able to select windows

metatron · #8 7th April 2009, 03:38 AM

All fixed. Thanks fellas. I first did what Glenn said, and changed the timeout, then I did what Bob said and added the link to hd0,0. Wasn't the default timeout in previous versions 5 seconds? (Oh, awesome boot time. From the time I choose Fedora on the menu, I clocked it at 23.11 seconds.)