Re: [Freedos-user] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

2024-03-02 Thread Jay F. Shachter via Freedos-user
If you did not save the first megabyte of your hard drive before overwriting it with your FreeDOS installation, then this is, in my opinion, the fastest and easiest way to recover: 1. Boot a Linux system from rescue media (exactly as you did in the session that you recently posted to this mai

Re: [Freedos-user] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

2024-02-29 Thread Jay F. Shachter via Freedos-user
Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Charles Hudson via Freedos-user would write on Thu Feb 29 10:44:56 2024: > > 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 lac

[Freedos-user] Can FreeDOS Be Installed On A Logical Slice? The Answer Remains Unknown

2023-07-21 Thread Jay F. Shachter via Freedos-user
Esteemed Colleagues: I successfully installed FreeDOS onto a primary slice of an MBR-partitioned disk. I was able to do this only because, even though Microsoft Windows had installed itself onto all three primary slices, someone told me that Microsoft Windows did not need the third one, and I t

[Freedos-user] Can FreeDOS Be Installed By Means Of UNIX Commands?

2023-07-16 Thread Jay F. Shachter via Freedos-user
Esteemed Colleagues: I have a computer, with an MBR-partitioned disk, that is configured to perform Legacy boot. Microsoft Windows is installed on three primary partitions, because that is what Windows does, and every other operating system on this computer must find a home for itself within th