Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and GRUB (Linux)
Is your partition for Freedos marked bootable? Is it a primary partition (though I'm not sure if Grub cares or not). --- Zbigniew Baniewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, some time ago I've installed FreeDOS (beside the other OS-es), and it was working fine. My disk has been divided in following way: NameFlags Part Type FS Type - hde1BootPrimary W95 FAT32 (LBA) hde2Primary Linux ReiserFS hde3Primary Linux swap / Solaris hde4Primary NetBSD But recently I decided to upgrade FreeDOS 0.9x to the new V1.0 - and that's cause of my problem. At the beginning, I made the installation starting from installing FreeDOS, and then Linux and NetBSD has been installed. Of course, I'm unable to do this in such way now - I don't want to clean the disk. I made the installation from CD - downloaded from FreeDOS-mirror - but FreeDOS doesn't boot, using GRUB, anymore. My GRUB FreeDOS-related section looks like this: title FreeDOS root(hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 ...and it was working before FreeDOS upgrade. I'm unable to fix this. I've found some tips using the Google - but none of them fix the problem. Booting from CD and then trying sys a: c: didn't make any better (although there was message system transferred). Now I can only boot from FreeDOS-CD, and only then access DOS partition. My question is, of course, what should I do to make FreeDOS boot like before - directly from HDD, using GRUB? I read the page http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=Installing_FreeDOS/23 where I saw, that the FreeDOS' problems with GRUB are nothing new - first messages are dated for 2003. I really can't uderstand, why the FreeDOS creators seem to be ignoring this problem since 3 years - although it's quite essential issue to have possibility just to install and run FreeDOS, without a need to spend hours looking (fruitlessy) for the solution. Is somebody able to help me? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited (http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited) - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and GRUB (Linux)
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 01:43:19PM -0700, Larry wrote: Is your partition for Freedos marked bootable? Can't you see the boot flag set (look the table in the quoting below...)? Is it a primary partition (though I'm not sure if Grub cares or not). Yes, it is. NameFlags Part Type FS Type - hde1BootPrimary W95 FAT32 (LBA) hde2Primary Linux ReiserFS hde3Primary Linux swap / Solaris hde4Primary NetBSD -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and GRUB (Linux)
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: title FreeDOS root(hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 and it was working before FreeDOS upgrade. I'm unable to fix this. I've found some tips using the Google - but none of them fix the problem. Booting from CD and then trying sys a: c: didn't Is somebody able to help me? Easy. title FreeDOS root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader /freedos.bss boot -- Take care. Your friend, dima 7509107*mail,ru 2:550/112 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and GRUB
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Palatinus wrote: can i put freedos as one of my boot selections in grub? So far I have Linux and Windows XP. Freedos is (as always) installed in the XP partition. However can I add it as an option? Sure. title FreeDOS root (hd0,0) #makeactive chainloader /freedos.bss #chainloader +1 boot -- Take care. Your friend, dima 7509107*mail,ru 2:550/112 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and GRUB
can i put freedos as one of my boot selections in grub? If you use grub4dos, you can use chainloader +1 /kernel.sys to boot the FreeDOS kernel directly, otherwise you must point it to a valid bootsector. -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
