Dual boot loading the wrong OS

[epots9]

Yesterday i installed Fedora 9 (removing Fedora 8) on my system. During the install i configured it to boot my XP partition by default but its booting Fedora by default. The grub.conf seems right, so i'm not too sure else i should do...is there another file that has to be edited?

Also i can't get into my windows partitions from fedora (wasn't a problem with version 8). the windows partitions are NTFS. I know linux can't write to NTFS drives but it can read them, thats all i need...for now. What can i do to fix the access issue?

thanks in advance.

[epots9]

the boot loader issue has been fixed. what happened was after a update 2 fedora options (plus windows) were in the boot loader, so i commented out the older fedora option but forgot the change the default option to the correct value. there were 3 options so the default went was a value of 2 (for windows), but when you comment out a block there are now 2 options to select, so the default has to be changed to a value of 1 (for windows, since fedora is first on the list).

but the issue with not being able to access the ntfs partitions still exists.

[Atli]

Hi.

I'm using my old Windows NTFS HDD's on my Ubuntu installation with both Read and Write enabled.

I'm not all that clear on the specifics, but I believe Ubuntu 8.04 ships with the 'ntfs-3g' driver, which enables it to both read and write to NTSF.

I just created a /media/ExtraDisk directory and edited my /etc/fstab file to include my drive, somewhat like:

/dev/sdc2 /media/ExtraDisk   ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
 

And now it's loaded automatically on startup.

Maybe you can find a 'ntfs-3g' version for Fedora via yum?

[epots9]

Fedora 9 has 'ntfs-3g' already installed but when i click on the drive from the computer folder it just sits there doing nothing.

but i'll try what you said.

thanks

[epots9]

Hi.

I'm using my old Windows NTFS HDD's on my Ubuntu installation with both Read and Write enabled.

I'm not all that clear on the specifics, but I believe Ubuntu 8.04 ships with the 'ntfs-3g' driver, which enables it to both read and write to NTSF.

I just created a /media/ExtraDisk directory and edited my /etc/fstab file to include my drive, somewhat like:

/dev/sdc2 /media/ExtraDisk   ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
 

And now it's loaded automatically on startup.

Maybe you can find a 'ntfs-3g' version for Fedora via yum?

thank you Atli that did the trick :D