Re: [Freedos-user] Problem installing FreeDOS together with Win98SE using metakern
Hi again, Robert I know my problem was confusion between MBR and the boot sector. But anyway, fdisk and bootmgr should return the same data... Anton - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Problem installing FreeDOS together with Win98SE using metakern
Hello all, I tried to install FreeDOS 1.0 on the same partition (C:) as Win98SE using metakern, but ran into the following problem. Here's what I did: 0. Installed FreeDOS on C: 1. With Win98SE active, I booted from win98 cd and typed: sys c: fdisk /mbr (Using the Windows versions of sys and fdisk) to restore the Windows boot sector. 2. Checked that, indeed, that worked and Win98 booted instead of FreeDOS. 3. Dumped the boot sector with two programms: bootmgr and fdisk (included with FreeDOS): a) bmWin98SE.bot b) fdWin98SE.bot Upon that I compared these files using the cmp utility and they turned to be different! 4. Then I booted from the FreeDOS cd and followed the instruc- tions for metakern: a) copy /b metakern.bin + metaboot.bot + bmWin98SE.bot metakern.sys b) SYS C: c) SYS C: /K metakern.sys 5. After reboot the metakern showed something like this: Bootsectors: 1. FreeDOS (chained to kernel .sys!) 2. Unknown operating system Pressing 1 booted FreeDOS, but #2 invoked the same menu: Booting sector 2... kick and the metakern menu appeared again. 6. Then I replaced bmWin98SE.bot with fdWin98SE.bot (as in step 4) and tried again. This time the second bootsector wasn't listed at all! Now I have no idea of how to make it work... Please, help. Thanks in advance, Anton - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Problem installing FreeDOS together with Win98SE using metakern
Anton Shepelev schreef: Hello all, I tried to install FreeDOS 1.0 on the same partition (C:) as Win98SE using metakern, but ran into the following problem. Here's what I did: 0. Installed FreeDOS on C: 1. With Win98SE active, I booted from win98 cd and typed: sys c: fdisk /mbr (Using the Windows versions of sys and fdisk) to restore the Windows boot sector. Start getting back to the original Win98 bootsector. You can write this mail, this you got internet access, thus you can get a Win98 bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com. Simply do SYS C: (you might want to prefer to do ATTRIB + R C:\MSDOS.SYS first though as that might get overwritten otherwise). 2. Checked that, indeed, that worked and Win98 booted instead of FreeDOS. 3. Dumped the boot sector with two programms: bootmgr and fdisk (included with FreeDOS): a) bmWin98SE.bot b) fdWin98SE.bot I think we got some versions of SYS for that (3.5, from unstable kernel versions), but also BOOTFIX program for example http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/disk/bootfix14.zip Be sure to be at C:\ before running the program. Upon that I compared these files using the cmp utility and they turned to be different! strange. did a FC /B file1.ext file2.ext ? 4. Then I booted from the FreeDOS cd and followed the instruc- tions for metakern: a) copy /b metakern.bin + metaboot.bot + bmWin98SE.bot metakern.sys b) SYS C: c) SYS C: /K metakern.sys be sure to have exact paths ( C:\METAKERN.SYS for example instead of METAKERN.SYS) and check filesizes. Metakern.bin is 1512 bytes, Metaboot.bot 256bytes, windows bootsector dump also 512 bytes, thus resulting in a C:\METAKERN.SYS of 2560 bytes. Your SYS commands are correct though there's the option of using /BOOTONLY to prevent any file copies. Are you sure your bootsector filenames are 8 characters? looks like 9 to me (bm win 98 se) Now I have no idea of how to make it work... Please, help. Thanks in advance, Anton It should work, let us know if you're able to get back to original situation (win98 booting) and if you run into trouble again. Bernd - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Problem installing FreeDOS together with Win98SE using metakern
Hi again! Dear, Bernd, everything had been fine (paths and filesizes) but one thing: fdisk and bootmgr were returning wrong bootsector dumps! I got it back to Win98SE, and invoked bootfix. Unfortunately, bootfix returns everything in a text (ascii) format, so I had to use FreePascal (from the FreeDOS distro!) to write a little program that read the bootfix's output, parsed it and outputted the binary bootsector image to another file. Then I did everything as before and it worked (from the second attempt for some reason, maybe I had made a typo somewhere). .. I had spend quite a lot of time trying to figure out what was wrong, so I think this tip (to use nothing else than bootfix to get the bootsector) should be incorporated into the FreeDOS installer's howto and/or metakern's manual. .. And bootfix should be endowed with an option to output the bootsector in the plain binary format. Many, many thanks Anton - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
