Re: [Freedos-user] Linux-freedos boot

2022-01-26 Thread andrea936 
  

Il 26.01.2022 00:39 Jerome Shidel ha scritto: 

>> On Jan 25, 2022,
at 4:16 PM, andrea...@tiscali.it [1] wrote: 
>> 
>> OK, it's an old
annoing question:I have a laptop with linux installed and I created
another dos / fat 32 partition where I installed freedos 1.3. (before
installing freedos I activated C:ms-dos with part.exe).
>> OK Freedos,
but disappears Linux MBR, and I can't anymore access linux although I
have grub installed.
>> With GAG cd live you see linux but it is not
loaded due to problems in the MBR.
>> The only way to repair the MBR and
log in again in linux was to use the BOOT REPAIR live cd.
>> Or another
way to solve the problem?
>> Thanks,
>> andrea
> During installation,
the installer creates two backups and stores them in C:FreeDOS as
BOOT.MBR and BOOT.BSS. The MBR is created by FDISK when it is told to
update the boot code. The second is created by the SYS command. You
should be able to use FDISK to restore the MBR. 
> There is an excellent
free DOS utility called MBRTOOL. It is not open source and has some
other distribution restrictions. But, it is free and can be legally
distributed as-is. Do to those restrictions it cannot be included with
the FreeDOS release. But, you can grab a mirrored copy from my website
at https://fd.lod.bz/redist/disk/MBRtool/ [4] v1.x is much smaller than
v2.x. But, both work really well. It is a great tool to have laying
around for emergencies. 
> :-) 
> Jerome
> Thank you for your interest,
I will try to be more careful when I install freedos next time
> 
>>
andrea
>> 
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Re: [Freedos-user] Linux-freedos boot

2022-01-25 Thread Jerome Shidel 


> On Jan 25, 2022, at 4:16 PM, andrea...@tiscali.it wrote:
> 
>  OK, it's an old annoing question:I have a laptop with linux installed and I 
> created another dos / fat 32 partition where I installed freedos 1.3. (before 
> installing freedos I activated C:\ms-dos with part.exe).
> OK Freedos, but disappears Linux MBR, and I can't anymore access linux 
> although I have grub installed.
> With GAG cd live you see linux but it is not loaded due to problems in the 
> MBR.
> The only way to repair the MBR and log in again in linux was to use the BOOT 
> REPAIR live cd.
> Or another way to solve the problem?
>   Thanks,
>  andrea

During installation, the installer creates two backups and stores them in 
C:\FreeDOS\ as BOOT.MBR and BOOT.BSS. The MBR is created by FDISK when it is 
told to update the boot code. The second is created by the SYS command. You 
should be able to use FDISK to restore the MBR. 

There is an excellent free DOS utility called MBRTOOL. It is not open source 
and has some other distribution restrictions. But, it is free and can be 
legally distributed as-is. Do to those restrictions it cannot be included with 
the FreeDOS release. But, you can grab a mirrored copy from my website at 
https://fd.lod.bz/redist/disk/MBRtool/  
v1.x is much smaller than v2.x. But, both work really well. It is a great tool 
to have laying around for emergencies. 

:-)

Jerome


> 
> 
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[Freedos-user] Linux-freedos boot

2022-01-25 Thread andrea936 
  OK, it's an old annoing question:I have a laptop with linux installed
and I created another dos / fat 32 partition where I installed freedos
1.3. (before installing freedos I activated C:ms-dos with part.exe).
OK
Freedos, but disappears Linux MBR, and I can't anymore access linux
although I have grub installed.
With GAG cd live you see linux but it is
not loaded due to problems in the MBR.
The only way to repair the MBR
and log in again in linux was to use the BOOT REPAIR live cd.
Or another
way to solve the problem?
 Thanks,
 andrea  


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