On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:41 AM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi Louis and Jerome, > > as advanced user, I am against installers zapping my MBR without > even looking at it. I would need a bootable CD to repair my boot > menu, or would need to know how to do that with DOS. Enough users > neither have boot repair CD prepared nor know how to use DOS tool > methods for restoring a backup of their MBR.
I am not advocating this. > As mentioned probably a few weeks ago, please overwrite the MBR > ONLY if it was empty... By EMPTY, I mean no code present at all. > Which is the state that you will probably see when you bought an > empty harddisk or made a new virtual computer to install DOS on. This almost never happens for 99.999% of users. I have a hard arguing for this as the only sane behavior. > You can mention in the readme that users can issue [some command] > at the DOS prompt after booting from the CD to overwrite the MBR. > That will allow them to do that at their own risk IF they want. > You could even add a dialog to ask the user whether they want to > overwrite their MBR, but this includes the risk that people would > say yes without careful thinking. Also, as said, this should ONLY > be required if the MBR was empty before. So I suggest to grab and > backup a copy of the MBR first. Second, check if it had boot code > and only third, only if not, write the boot code which was missing. I am advocating this. Big red warning screen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
