My thanks to all who responded. With your help I managed to
recover the installed Fedora 39 KDE Workstation OS and to install a
modified GRUB2 bootloader that gives me the option of booting Fedora
or FreeDOS. I made a number of discoveries along the way and for
use by anyone who might find
Thank you all for your responses. Apparently my responses have been over
the 40k limit; I'm not familiar with the site so pardon my delay in
responding.
There is only one active partition; it is sda1. it got moved to sda3 where
DOS was installed when I used the fdisk that was part of the
On a Lenovo R400 laptop with an existing Fedora 39 KDE system, booted by
GRUB2, I decided to add a new partition and install FreeDOS 1.3.
The Intel Core2 DUO processor lacks VM extensions so I decided to install
on the SSD. I resized the BRTFS partition to create a new 3 GiB FAT32
partition,
