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[Freedos-user] FreeDOS installed, but partition not bootable

Chris
Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:07:04 -0800

I've recently installed FreeDOS to a new partition on my Toshiba Tecra  
2300 laptop, but there were a couple of hitches along the way.

First issue was the Live CD failing to boot.  Isolinux gives an config  
file error and defaults to command prompt.  I'm pretty sure it's not a  
bad burn or
any other kind of error with the CD, because I've successfully  
installed FreeDOS on a previous laptop and a PC from it with no  
problems.  Manually starting FDBOOT.IMG using memdisk seems to have  
worked, I was able to run the installer.  I've mentioned this in case  
it has some bearing on my second issue.

I've installed PLoP Boot Manager 5.0.7, which recognises the FreeDOS  
partition, but gives an 'unable to read boot device' error.  The  
partition is primary and
active, and has both fdconfig.sys in the root directory and kernal.sys  
in the \fdos dir, so it looks to me like the installation completed  
successfully.

I'd welcome any suggestions.


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