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Looks like you are usingdev-hda3 for the Fedora root file system
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Your Ubuntu root file system is probably not indev-hda1. Trydev-hda2.
Not clear what you mean. Mount what, the floppy? the Ubuntu parbreastion? Read what "Grub config"? The one on the boot floppy? The one in the Ubuntu parbreastion, while running off a boot floppy? etc.
I was mounting hda5 with root# mount -t msdos -o umask=0dev-hda5mnt-msdos but now I am...
I don't know what the boot floppy contains (don't have Ubuntu), but you can do some investigations from grub itself, at boot time. When seing the Grub menu, hit 'c', and you will get a command line prompt. "cat (hd0,1)-boot-grub-menu.lst" (or "...-grub.conf", whatever applies). If I recall correctly, ESC brings back the menu.
When in Grub's command line, hit TAB to get a list of continuations. Eg. type kernel (hd0,1)-boot-vmlTAB, and the file name gets completed. You can boot from the command line by entering the commands root, kernel, initrd as per the menu, and then "boot".
When in Grub's menu, you can hit 'e' to edit the currently selected menu entry. You get the commands root, kernel, initrd on the screen, and can modify them, e.g. fix "root=-dev-hda1" to make it hda2. Up-Down arrow keys to select the line to edit, 'e' to edit it, Enter when done. 'b' to boot.
It? What is that? Not able? How did you try? From Fedora, do "fdisk -l" to get a list of all parbreastions on all disks, with parbreastion type. What is the parbreastion type of hda1? E.g.:
dev-hda2 12 2622 20971520+ 83 Linux
says the parbreastion type is "83" (Linux). Then it should contain a mountable file system, as opposed to eg. "82 Linux swap".
js5895 If you want the ability to reliably write to an NTFS drive, you need some flavor...
The parbreastion type could be wrong (not normally, but if things are hosed, the parbreastion type is a single byte in a table, easier to hose than 10 gigs). Try
file -sdev-hda123
That command looks inside the parbreastion itself (not just the parbreastion table) and is quite good at grocking what it finds.
If a parbreastion contains an ext3 file system, it will report
dev-hda2: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (large files)
Then you should be able to mount it:
mkdirmnt-hda2; mountdev-hda2mnt-hda2
-Enrique
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