I some what followed this thread and others to get my triple boot to work.


So this is what I started with:


ASUS Laptop A2500 using grub2 (yes its an old one)
sda1 = w2000 (came with the Lap Top)
sda5 = U10.04LTS
sda6 = swap
sda7 = Home (Ubuntu's home dirs)


I did have issues booting Fedora 13 from the CD and I cant get the USB boot to work, probably requires some more research (i.e. playing around with) on my part. I did find the “PLOP Boot manager” and with the combination of the “PLOP Boot manager” CD and F13 on a USB stick I was able to boot into the live Fedora 13 system. I followed a Fedora forums thread (see below for the link) to make the F13 USB stick. Couldn't get the Ubuntu “Startup Disk Creator” to work. Need to research this more.


Natively F13 installs with a boot partition and a LVM setup for the rest. This I did NOT get to work and “grub-update” did not find these partitions. What I did make work was loading F13 on a normal partition and loading the F13 boot loader to that partition.


I didn't take any screen shots so you will just have to look at the F13 install options to set that up. I used custom partitions and made sure that the boot loader will install on the F13 partition in my case that would be sda8.


After F13 and the F13 boot loader were installed I booted up into Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and ran “sudo grub-update” and made sure it found the OS's or partitions for a) w2000, b) U10.04LTS, and c) F13. I ended up with this configuration:


sda1 = w2000
sda5 = U10.04LTS
sda6 = swap
sda7 = Home (Ubuntu's home dirs)
sda8 = F13 with F13 boot loader


For some odd reason I had to boot twice into U10.04LTS and run the “grub-update”. Not sure what happened.


And “swap is swap”, since this is dual/triple booting no need for multiple swap partitions. So I just made sure that F13 found the sda6 swap partition and used it.


Anyway I did boot into F13 and was able to run all updates and now I have a triple booting laptop.


One last note: both implementations U10.04LTS and F13 use the Gnome desktop manager.


A big Thank You goes out to all the people who posted on this and the Fedora website.


George




Reference and Credits:
PLOP Boot manager
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-fr...t-via-plop-cd/
Ubuntu post subject: How to Dual boot Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora 13?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1529004
Fedora post subject: HowTo Install Fedora 10/11/12 DVD from a 4GB USB stick
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205596