Hi, In addition to what others have said about restoring the Win 98 bootsectors, I'll suggest one more thing. Restoring those bootsectors will allow you to boot into Win 98 fine from LILO, but you still have to do things to be able to boot into FreeDOS.
For that, what I'd suggest is to re-install FreeDOS and when it asks if you want to install the bootsectors, choose NO. Then, when it drops you into the command prompt, type "SYS D:" to install the FreeDOS bootsectors onto D:. It might give an error about KERNEL.SYS not being found (it gave for me), but you can solve that by changing to C: and then doing "SYS D:" (this is coz the KERNEL.SYS file is installed onto C: for some reason). Now you can add an entry into LILO for booting this D: partition. And FreeDOS should boot fine. :) By the way, I said to re-install above coz I don't remeber the exact installation steps and so am not sure if there's some option to simply get to the FreeDOS command prompt (in case of Win98 you had the startup disk, in case of FreeDOS I dunno). Once you get to the command prompt, you can simply do "SYS D:" (and the rest of the steps) like I said above ... and you are done! Hope that helps. Welcome to FreeDOS! :) Thanks, Rakhesh ----- Original message ----- From: "B or J Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:14:25 +1000 Subject: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation gone wrong Hello, I have just installed FreeDOS on my duel boot Windows / Linux PC. I attempted to install it on d: but it has interfered with Windows, which is on my C: When I select Windows from the lilo menu I now get the following message and the computer hangs:- Loading FreeDOS No KERNEL SYS How can I restore Windows again, so far all attempts have failed. Kind regards, Brian ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
