Jayden, I do not know how your question relates to ext file systems. However,
I gave up on Grub plus DOS after I locked myself out from my PC. I made a mistake in the Grub configuration and I could not boot the PC at all any more. By the way, Barry Kauler(PuppyLinux) reported the same problem so I am in good company. I finally booted with Grub4DOS and fixed the boot/grub/menu.lst file. To get DOS to work with Grub you have to get it to mask any non-FAT partitions so DOS feels it is on the first partition. It can be done but I will not try it again on my main PC. After locking myself out I prefer to boot DOS from a CD. This is as if you boot from a floppy and then access the disk drives. DOS detects the first FAT partition as drive C: and you can work normally. Further FAT partitions are detected as D: and so on. On my PC I have mixed NTFS, EXT4 and FAT16/32 partitions. DOS finds the ones it can access. Grub will install itself in the first disk sectors and it will stay there even if you delete a Linux partition later. What you can perhaps do is to install Linux again. The Linux installer may find Grub installed and configure it so it will allow to boot the newly installed Linux distro. If you make a FAT32 partition on your disk you can boot DOS from a CD and access that FAT32 partition. Or fiddle with Grub till it allows you to boot DOS from this partition from the Grub menu. Georg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
