I've had that experience too
You have to repair grub
See the wiki
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... _your_grub
Now there is a problem You say Mint and fedora are on sdb
Do you have a sda, a disk with one partition? (Windows?)
If so you should use (hd0,1) when you repair
Grub is in the MBR of sda if it exists
Fedora broke my Mint! -- Dual boot solved
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Re: Fedora broke my Mint! -- Dual boot
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Re: Fedora broke my Mint! -- Dual boot
OK - this was a bit new to me as well. You seem to have used the second SATA not the first
There is no master/slave in SATA, but first second, third and so on
Let it be there, but thinking of it the only thing you would have to do if you move to the first SATA (check so you end up on the right one) would probably be to change sdb to sda in a few places. But if you don't plan on getting more disks in the near future - let it be
Grub is in the MBR of sdb which becomes 0 in this case
So my advice in my first post is still valid
It's so easy to forget that all does not have my level of knowledge...
I forgot to mention that after repairing grub you should be able to boot Mint - but not Fedora
To be able to do that you have to copy the appropriate portion of Fedora's menu.lst to that of Mint
This would be
That gives you Fedora...
There is no master/slave in SATA, but first second, third and so on
Let it be there, but thinking of it the only thing you would have to do if you move to the first SATA (check so you end up on the right one) would probably be to change sdb to sda in a few places. But if you don't plan on getting more disks in the near future - let it be
Grub is in the MBR of sdb which becomes 0 in this case
So my advice in my first post is still valid
It's so easy to forget that all does not have my level of knowledge...
I forgot to mention that after repairing grub you should be able to boot Mint - but not Fedora
To be able to do that you have to copy the appropriate portion of Fedora's menu.lst to that of Mint
This would be
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title Fedora (2.6.23.14-107.fc8)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-107.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.14-107.fc8.img
title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img