On Sun, Nov 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM peter--- via Freedos-user <[email protected]> wrote: [..] > Then rebooted and FreeDOS came to life. Good. =8~) > > Still wanted to multiboot and therefore installed Boot Manager. > That allowed booting Oberon in /dev/sdb2. > So the FreeDOS installer didn't cobber /dev/sdb2. > > Then tried booting FreeDOS via Boot Manager. No luck. [..] > Anyone else have FreeDOS working in a multiboot setup? > Ideas? Any clues in the screenshot?
Using a boot manager is an excellent idea when you need to boot multiple operating systems from one physical PC. I used to do this all the time from the 1990s to the early 2000s to try out different things. But the idea of a virtual machine is to *isolate* operating systems to their own virtual space. With a virtual machine system like QEMU, you don't need to use multiboot -- just set up one virtual machine for FreeDOS, and a new virtual machine to run Oberon. While multiboot should work, you seem to be making this harder than it needs to be. Maybe you answered this in a previous email (I'm starting to get caught up on email) but why not set up a separate virtual machine for Oberon? _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
