Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS from secondary HDD
Hi, I thought it should work with normal GRUB as well, but it didn't. Now I have GRUB4DOS as well (actually now I have 3 boot-loaders in chain - I need to make clean things someday). It almost works! GRUB4DOS loads freedos.bss well, so FreeDOS starts. But it sees the FAT32 partition of my primary HDD as drive C:, and sees the FAT32 partition of my secondary HDD (where FreeDOS is installed - however it was my primary HDD before) as drive D:. So it actually asks for the location of the command interpreter, and of course, fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat won't get executed. Now what can I do to make FreeDOS see D: as C: and vica-versa? Or how can I tell it to look for it's stuffs on drive D:? So I'd like to swap those drives (but only for FreeDOS) or I'd like to tell FreeDOS to use drive D: instead. Thanks, MegaBrutal 2008/5/17 Michael Reichenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MegaBrutal schrieb: 2008/5/15 Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You need a boot loader to do this. I run Linux on my PC, so my boot loader is GNU GRUB. You can try that. How can I configure GRUB to load freedos.bss ? I've tried to load it as a kernel, but it doesn't work. Or should I try to load kernel.sys ? - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user I am using grub4dos. # find and load KERNEL.SYS from FreeDOS title find and load KERNEL.SYS from FreeDOS find --set-root /KERNEL.SYS chainloader /KERNEL.SYS ...works for me very well. Chainloading another harddisk is also possible. Loading a bootsector.bin also. If you struggle somewhere ask again, I am currently quite familiar with multi booting. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS from secondary HDD
Hi! It almost works! GRUB4DOS loads freedos.bss well, so FreeDOS starts. But it sees the FAT32 partition of my primary HDD as drive C:, and sees the FAT32 partition of my secondary HDD (where FreeDOS is installed - however it was my primary HDD before) as drive D:. So it actually asks for the location of the command interpreter, and of course, fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat won't get executed. You could put fdconfig.sys on your new C: and edit it to point to D: for all filenames. Then you only need one FreeDOS file on your primary harddisk and can boot the rest from the secondary disk. Now what can I do to make FreeDOS see D: as C: and vica-versa? If you want to keep the primary disk totally clean from FreeDOS (not even fdconfig.sys on it) then you would have to tell GRUB4DOS to swap the drives entirely. This means that GRUB4DOS will have to stay in RAM all the time... The option / method is called mapping, I believe. You could also tell GRUB4DOS to modify the partition table on the fly and make the partition on the primary disk hidden before it actually boots DOS. Then you would also have to tell it to un-hide it again before you boot the other OS on the primary disk, of course. Or how can I tell it to look for it's stuffs on drive D:? You can tell it by putting a fdconfig.sys on C: :-). Then you only need one FreeDOS file on C: and can tell FreeDOS that all other stuff is on D: :-). Eric - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS from secondary HDD
Hey, I am not aware of your whole configuration and partitions but maybe this helps already. grub legacy (and therefore also grub4dos) has a function called map. With map you can virtually exchange partitions and harddisks. So it could be easy to fix the mess with the drive letters. See http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/map.html -mr MegaBrutal schrieb: Hi, I thought it should work with normal GRUB as well, but it didn't. Now I have GRUB4DOS as well (actually now I have 3 boot-loaders in chain - I need to make clean things someday). It almost works! GRUB4DOS loads freedos.bss well, so FreeDOS starts. But it sees the FAT32 partition of my primary HDD as drive C:, and sees the FAT32 partition of my secondary HDD (where FreeDOS is installed - however it was my primary HDD before) as drive D:. So it actually asks for the location of the command interpreter, and of course, fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat won't get executed. Now what can I do to make FreeDOS see D: as C: and vica-versa? Or how can I tell it to look for it's stuffs on drive D:? So I'd like to swap those drives (but only for FreeDOS) or I'd like to tell FreeDOS to use drive D: instead. Thanks, MegaBrutal 2008/5/17 Michael Reichenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MegaBrutal schrieb: 2008/5/15 Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You need a boot loader to do this. I run Linux on my PC, so my boot loader is GNU GRUB. You can try that. How can I configure GRUB to load freedos.bss ? I've tried to load it as a kernel, but it doesn't work. Or should I try to load kernel.sys ? - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user I am using grub4dos. # find and load KERNEL.SYS from FreeDOS title find and load KERNEL.SYS from FreeDOS find --set-root /KERNEL.SYS chainloader /KERNEL.SYS ...works for me very well. Chainloading another harddisk is also possible. Loading a bootsector.bin also. If you struggle somewhere ask again, I am currently quite familiar with multi booting. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] grub4dos [advertisement]
Hi. I know you are not a grub4dos developer, but I have been unable to discover the email address for the developers of this project. I need to have an account on gna.org, but I do not have an account there (nor do I want one.) Would you mind forwarding my email to the developers for me? Thanks for helping! -jh On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Michael Reichenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Jim! Jim Hall schrieb: Hi. I just grabbed the latest version of Grub4dos to look at it. You need to distribute source code for this, at the same time you release the binary. You acknowledge that Grub4dos is a fork of Grub, so must follow the GNU GPL. But you do not abide by it here. Section 3 of the GNU GPL (see COPYING in your grub4dos-0.4.3.zip file) says: [snip] Sorry if my posting was a bit confusing so you thought that I am a grub4dos developer. To clarify this: I am not a grub4dos developer as in 20.05.2008. I am only satisfied end user and also have no privilege contact with them. If you want the grub4dos developers to know that please mail them directly, use the mailinglist or the chinese forum. -mr - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] grub4dos [advertisement]
Oops, sorry. I meant to send that to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of the list. Please ignore. -jh On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I know you are not a grub4dos developer, but I have been unable to discover the email address for the developers of this project. I need to have an account on gna.org, but I do not have an account there (nor do I want one.) Would you mind forwarding my email to the developers for me? Thanks for helping! -jh On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Michael Reichenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Jim! Jim Hall schrieb: Hi. I just grabbed the latest version of Grub4dos to look at it. You need to distribute source code for this, at the same time you release the binary. You acknowledge that Grub4dos is a fork of Grub, so must follow the GNU GPL. But you do not abide by it here. Section 3 of the GNU GPL (see COPYING in your grub4dos-0.4.3.zip file) says: [snip] Sorry if my posting was a bit confusing so you thought that I am a grub4dos developer. To clarify this: I am not a grub4dos developer as in 20.05.2008. I am only satisfied end user and also have no privilege contact with them. If you want the grub4dos developers to know that please mail them directly, use the mailinglist or the chinese forum. -mr - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] some questions
I think that in dos, a call by direct reference is a transfer, and there will be no return. You should be able to reference with a call statement, like call newsub, which will result in a return to the calling routine after the called batch file is completed. --- Halász Sándor Viktor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/05/23 14:20 +0200, Michael Reichenbach 2) When I call from within autoexec.bat to test.bat file then after test.bat is done it won`t jump back to autoexec.bat, also if exit is the last command. It is a weakness of DOS batch files that such code does not return: given A.BAT, B dir and B.BAT, cd .. , the B in A.BAT is enough to start B.BAT, but A is _replaced_, not suspended. To suspend it is needful to use CALL: call B dir . - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
