Hi Tom and Jayden, as any other DOS, FreeDOS will boot using a boot sector which is part of a FAT (FAT12, FAT16 or FAT32) partition on your harddisk, SSD or other type of disk.
Of course boot sectors are also very friendly for being booted from Syslinux, Lilo, Grub, Grub4dos, the boot menu of various Windows versions such as Win95, WinNT, WinXP, as well as various other boot menu systems :-) To answer Jayden's question, Windows 7 will usually NOT have a FAT boot partition, so DOS and Windows will have their home on separate partitions, making it easy to let them work without interference. With older versions of Windows, you can install DOS and Win on the same drive letter: This is possible with a suitable boot menu and relies on the fact that FreeDOS prefers FreeDOS-specific names for all system files. For example if there are two files config.sys and fdconfig.sys, FreeDOS will use the latter, so the former can be whatever Windows wants :-) Maybe I also misunderstood the question of Jayden. Regards, Eric PS: FreeDOS at the moment only sees partitions on MBR style partitioned disks, there is no GPT support yet. You can still boot FreeDOS from GPT disks by using a diskimage together with a memdisk ramdisk as your C: > There was a recent discussion on the upcoming FreeDOS 1.2, my > question is how will it boot. > > Will it use Syslinux as FreeDOS 1.1 did, or will it boot directly > from DOS kernel? > > Or maybe some other boot chooser? > > Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
