Adding Ubuntu to Boot Loader

Tar.Aldarion

Hello, I had Fedora and Vista on my laptop...two different boot loaders. I installed Ubuntu through wubi/windows and although there was an option to pick ubuntu in the windows boot loader it jsut went to another menu saying I could pick from windows boot loader or fedora to boot into, essentailly a giant loop if I want to try and pick Ubuntu.

So I messed around with boot loaders BCDedit.exe, Easy BCD etc and lost everthing but Vista. I now have Fedora back. In teh same menu as vista but using grub or something

How do i easily add Ubuntu to the list though? When I try to I add fedora again by accident. I know it is there, I just have never gotten into it. Do I edit /boot/grub/menu.lst in Fedora? BCD in Vista? Here is my current one, how do you know what to add in?

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,1)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
#          initrd /boot/initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=3
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686)
	root (hd0,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 ro root=UUID=7a0b69e7-05b6-467a-8bbf-97a6c7a7e0af noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=ie rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.img
title Other
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1

Tar.Aldarion

Here is the output of BCDedit.exe

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier              {bootmgr}
device                  boot
description             Windows Boot Manager
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {globalsettings}
default                 {current}
resumeobject            {e63a160a-9f15-11df-96fb-806e6f6e6963}
displayorder            {current}
                        {c82d5355-9f14-11df-9206-002269bf06bb}
                        {c82d5356-9f14-11df-9206-002269bf06bb}
toolsdisplayorder       {memdiag}
timeout                 10
displaybootmenu         Yes

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {current}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description             Microsoft vista
locale                  en-US
osdevice                partition=C:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {e63a160a-9f15-11df-96fb-806e6f6e6963}

Real-mode Boot Sector
---------------------
identifier              {c82d5355-9f14-11df-9206-002269bf06bb}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr
description             hmmm

Real-mode Boot Sector
---------------------
identifier              {c82d5356-9f14-11df-9206-002269bf06bb}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \NST\AutoNeoGrub1.mbr
description             grub

First goes into vista

second goes into a menu of booting into fedora and an option to go back to the windows loader from the first screen

third goes into fedora


Here is the same thing from Easy BCD

There are a total of 3 entries listed in the bootloader.

Default: Microsoft vista
Timeout: 10 seconds
EasyBCD Boot Device: C:\

Entry #1
Name: Microsoft vista
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe

Entry #2
Name: hmmm
BCD ID: {c82d5355-9f14-11df-9206-002269bf06bb}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr

Entry #3
Name: grub
BCD ID: {c82d5356-9f14-11df-9206-002269bf06bb}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\AutoNeoGrub1.mbr

I would have thought that \ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr would boot into ubuntu instead of the screen with teh choice of fedora or going back to the first screen.

Tar.Aldarion

Fixed.