On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:07:05PM +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
> Below question from user. Please, answer directly for him.
I send a CC to him.
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> From: xcobra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: lilo and freedos
>
> Hi I've a question; (if you don't mind)
> I just installed freedos on it's own fat partition from the cd. I've edited
> lilo.conf and made the freedos partition bootable.
> But if I boot from lilo I see: freedos fat kernel go! But I can't type
> anything???
If you just see that, then FreeDos doesn't start correctly.
I had the same problem.
It seems, that FreeDos has trouble to start from another Partition,
which is not C:. (Although the FreeDos developers told me, that it
shouldn't be a problem.)
But it is possible for FreeDos to live on the same partition as another
Dos or Windows with the use of lilo or other bootmanagers.
Here is how to do it with lilo:
- First make sure, that your old Dos doesn't use the command.com from the
root directory!
- then boot from your FreeDos bootdiskette and enter the following:
sys A: C: bootsect.fd
This copies the kernel.sys and command.com to C:, but it leaves the
bootsector untouched. Instead it writes the bootsector to a file, which
you can later use in lilo.
- To have a special CONFIG.SYS for FreeDOS, you can use the filename
FDCONFIG.SYS instead.
- Now you surely also want to have a special AUTOEXEC.BAT. For this you
should have the following line in your FDCONFIG.SYS:
SHELLHIGH=C:\FREEDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM /E:256 /K:FDAUTO.BAT /P
(Maybe you have to change it a little)
Now you can use FDAUTO.BAT as replacement for AUTOEXEC.BAT.
- Now boot Linux to configure your lilo. It's best if you move your
bootsect.fd file to the linux partition into the directory /boot.
Now put the following entry into your /etc/lilo.conf:
other = /boot/bootsect.fd
Label = FreeDos
Enter the command "lilo" to install it.
Then you should be able to boot FreeDos and your old Dos separatly.
> Maybe if you explain; you can give me good hints; I already copied the
> compilers to my freedos partition ;)
Maybe you can keep it there and use it as drive D:. ;-)
--
Tschuess
Andreas
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