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

[Alain Mouette]

The boot sector is installed with the command:
SYS C:

but BE CAREFULL!!!!!! that c: is the FreeDOS partition...

Alain

Chris escreveu:
> 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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