I have had little problem "dual-booting" FreeDOS and Linux. I used the quotes because I usually boot four or more OS's on a given PC. It is easiest to start with a floppy boot image, tweak it until it works as you want it to, and then install to the HDD. I have just been learn- ing that grub does not yet seem to be able to boot FreeBSD with the new ufs2 file system, even though it is supposed to. It works fine with ufs1. Ken Martwick
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:11:02AM -0400, Thomas Murray wrote: > Is it possible to have a dual boot system (Linux and FreeDOS) using grub or > grub4dos? From what I've seen from searching the web, a lot of people are > having trouble with this kind of setup. Has there been any progress on this > front? I really don't want to use a boot floppy if I don't have to, and I'd > rather not have MSDOS on my computer as explained in the "GRUB for DOS > How-To" that was posted on 2004-12-28. It was mentioned in that post that > the DOS based GRUB will not run with all FreeDOS kernels. I assume that > this means that some FreeDOS kernels will. Any ideas which ones will work? > > Also, emulation from within Linux with DOSemu or BOCHS is not an option for > me for I want to use FreeDOS to run a machine controller program (TurboCNC) > and that program requires realtime access to the computer. > > Thanks, > Tom Murray > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
