Unable to boot into Ubuntu after Ubuntu-Fedora Dual Boot

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I tried to dual boot Ubuntu and fedora, but now I am unable to boot into my Ubuntu installation. Here is the situation I had Ubuntu installed already on /dev/sda2 and I resized it to create another partition /dev/sda3 . I installed fedora 15 on /dev/sda3 . Now I can boot into fedora but there in to option to go into Ubuntu. Swap partition is on /dev/sda1.

Swap /dev/sda1
Ubuntu /dev/sda2
Fedora /dev/sda3

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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Fedora 15 still uses grub legacy for boot, and it overwrites Ubuntu's Grub 2 boot loader and menu. And Grub legacy does not find Ubuntu install out-of-the-box.

To restore Ubuntu's boot, all you have to do is re-install grub2.

Do this:

Boot using Ubuntu's Live CD
Open Nautilus, and double-click Ubuntu's partition. Take note of its mount point directory (if you labeled the partitions, it will be something like /media/label
Now open terminal and issue:

sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/your-ubuntu-label /dev/sda
You may boot into Ubuntu now.
If you want to add Fedora 15 to Ubuntu's (grub2) boot list, do this:

sudo update-grub

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered Aug 31 '11 at 06:50

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This procedure does not work anymore on Ubuntu 13.04 with Fedora 19. Any ideas? – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Jul 06 '13 at 14:17
Take back my comment, this might have worked, but I had installed fedora on top of an existing partition, and fsck kept trying to mount that because of my fstab. – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Jul 06 '13 at 15:01

Unable to boot into Ubuntu after Ubuntu-Fedora Dual Boot

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