[Freedos-user] Lilo, GRUB etc.
Den 2022-01-28 kl. 21:08, skrev Björn Morell: Looks right to me and yes GRUB is not that easy, I have a similar machine an IBM 4DX 100 MHz with 3 Compact flash drives (CF to IDE) and one CDRW via a soudblaster IDE interface, works really well with UDVD2 even burning CDs from DOS. DSL on hda1 Freedos on hdb1 , Dr-Dos on hdb2 and windows 95 (with lite step shell ) on hdc1 - Never managed to boot Dr-Dos from GRUB so I installed Damn Small Linux4.11 RC2 and picked Lilo as bootloader, It allmoust worked out of the box everything booted except Dr-Dos but LILO has some good switches: other=/dev/hdb1 label="FreeDos(hdb1)" change automatic partition=/dev/hdb2 deactivate partition=/dev/hdb1 activate boot-as=0x80 other=/dev/hdb1 label="DrDos(hdb1)" change automatic partition=/dev/hdb1 deactivate partition=/dev/hdb2 activate boot-as=0x80 other=/dev/hdc1 label="Win95(hdc1) boot-as=0x80 Works fine I can boot all 4 without a problem. Den 2022-01-27 kl. 13:42, skrev Daniel: I have a old Dell laptop that was originally XP that now is tri-boot. I have FreeDos 1.3 RC5, XP, and even Linux. In order to do this you cannot simply install everything normally, at least as far as I know. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong here. Here is the steps that I found that works: First wipe the drive that you want to use, then using fdisk setup a partition for FreeDOS and another for the other operating system as an extended partition. Format and install FreeDOS on the first partition. Do nothing for the second partition. Leave it alone until you have installed FreeDOS installed andworking. Once it is installed and working, install the Linux distro you want and tell it to setup and use the second partition you had set up in fdisk. This should allow you to use both Linux and FreeDOS together. Notice: Order of install matters! If you installed Linux, then installed freeDOS you will need to update your grub to see and use the new FreeDOS system which can be a pest. I hope this was helpful. On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 07:29 wrote: Send Freedos-user mailing list submissions to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to freedos-user-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net You can reach the person managing the list at freedos-user-ow...@lists.sourceforge.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Freedos-user digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Linux-freedos boot (andrea...@tiscali.it) 2. Re: Watcom compiler on FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 (Jerome Shidel) 3. Re: Watcom compiler on FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 (Rugxulo) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:33:22 +0100 From: andrea...@tiscali.it To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Linux-freedos boot Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 >> >> Con Tiscali Mobile Smart 70 hai 70 GB in 4G, minuti
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Looks right to me and yes GRUB is not that easy, I have a similar machine an IBM 4DX 100 MHz with 3 Compact flash drives (CF to IDE) and one CDRW via a soudblaster IDE interface, works really well with UDVD2 even burning CDs from DOS. DSL on hda1 Freedos on hdb1 , Dr-Dos on hdb2 and windows 95 (with lite step shell ) on hdc1 - Never managed to boot Dr-Dos from GRUB so I installed Damn Small Linux4.11 RC2 and picked Lilo as bootloader, It allmoust worked out of the box everything booted except Dr-Dos but LILO has some good switches: other=/dev/hdb1 label="FreeDos(hdb1)" change automatic partition=/dev/hdb2 deactivate partition=/dev/hdb1 activate boot-as=0x80 other=/dev/hdb1 label="DrDos(hdb1)" change automatic partition=/dev/hdb1 deactivate partition=/dev/hdb2 activate boot-as=0x80 other=/dev/hdc1 label="Win95(hdc1) boot-as=0x80 Works fine I can boot all 4 without a problem. Den 2022-01-27 kl. 13:42, skrev Daniel: I have a old Dell laptop that was originally XP that now is tri-boot. I have FreeDos 1.3 RC5, XP, and even Linux. In order to do this you cannot simply install everything normally, at least as far as I know. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong here. Here is the steps that I found that works: First wipe the drive that you want to use, then using fdisk setup a partition for FreeDOS and another for the other operating system as an extended partition. Format and install FreeDOS on the first partition. Do nothing for the second partition. Leave it alone until you have installed FreeDOS installed andworking. Once it is installed and working, install the Linux distro you want and tell it to setup and use the second partition you had set up in fdisk. This should allow you to use both Linux and FreeDOS together. Notice: Order of install matters! If you installed Linux, then installed freeDOS you will need to update your grub to see and use the new FreeDOS system which can be a pest. I hope this was helpful. On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 07:29 wrote: Send Freedos-user mailing list submissions to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to freedos-user-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net You can reach the person managing the list at freedos-user-ow...@lists.sourceforge.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Freedos-user digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Linux-freedos boot (andrea...@tiscali.it) 2. Re: Watcom compiler on FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 (Jerome Shidel) 3. Re: Watcom compiler on FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 (Rugxulo) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:33:22 +0100 From: andrea...@tiscali.it To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Linux-freedos boot Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 >> >> Con Tiscali Mobile Smart 70 hai 70 GB in 4G, minuti illimitati e 100 SMS a soli 7,99EUR al mese
