Picking up on this topic, I ran into a serious problem today when trying
to use the FreeDOS SYS command to fix the problem discussed below.
Except I'd completely misunderstood the command line options for my
version of FreeDOS SYS and what it can and can't do! See below...
4. SYS a: c: BOOTONLY (put FreeDOS bootsector onto c: drv)
5. Start Windows real-mode setup program
Here is where it goes BADLY wrong! When the system reboots, it tries to
boot the C drive, and gives the following error on a black screen:
Disk Error
Press any key to restart
This is still a mystery.
As an experiment (before this last step) I decided to use FreeDOS SYS to
replace the "broken" NT boot sector to see if it would fix it. FreeDOS
SYS has an option to grab a 512b boot sector from a file and write it to
a drive (very nice),
No it does not! At least not the version I'm using. I'd misunderstood
the help strings when typing SYS /?
I'd seen the stuff about "boot sector files", and assumed it was
offering to write boot sectors to my hard drive partition. After reading
the text more carefully, it's actually offering to write the _FreeDOS_
boot sector to a disk file! That's not the same at all, and explains why
my boot sector never got changed.
The SYS command did it's thing, and reported the new boot sector had
been installed, but when I tried to boot the C: drive, it did NOT look
like the NT boot sector! It was saying "FreeDOS can't find KERNEL.SYS".
Hmmm, something not right there.
Yes, it had installed the _FreeDOS_ boot sector and kindly also written
it to a disk file for me, DUH!
Here are my versions:
KERNEL 1.1.35 (Build 2035-cvs) June 16 2005
SYS v3.2 June 2005
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Gerry Hickman (London UK)
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