John, I've been using SuSE/openSUSE for over a decade without ever having seen a boot menu that uses function keys for selection. This suggests you've been using some boot loader other than one from openSUSE, one which was probably installed either in the MBR or in the partition the floppy disk recognized as C:, and which you disturbed or obliterated using the SYS command.
The partitioner the SuSE installer uses may have been used to create partition(s) for its use using different logical geometry than that used by the installed DOS version(s) and/or the FD boot floppy. Likely the geometry isn't a real problem that needs fixing, but recovering the bootloader you had been using may be the first thing that needs doing. If I had it here what I would try is setting the system up to boot into the SuSE Grub bootloader using the recovery option from the SuSE installation media, and from that choose to boot either WinDOS or FreeDOS or openSUSE as desired. Before that though I would try moving the boot flag from C: to the Linux partition if the latter is a primary to see if Linux will boot. If it does, it probably already has menu entry(s) for booting DOS and/or Win98. It might be easier than recovering Linux bootloader status via repair to use a newer openSUSE installation media to upgrade Linux. If any Linux root or boot partition is a primary, I would install Grub to that primary, if it isn't there already. This option (booting from Linux on a primary without disturbing WinDOS MBR code) allows use of standard PC compatible MBR boot code, and won't corrupt the ability to boot Linux after any event like your application of SYS C:. All that would be required in a repeat of such event would be to restore the boot flag from the C: partition back to the Linux primary. cf. http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/install-doz-after.html -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
