On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Ethan Rosenberg <eth...@earthlink.net> wrote:
At 04:19 AM 12/2/2011, Brian wrote:
>
>> On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 23:32:42 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
>>
>> > I'm obviously doing something incorrect, since I cannot get a DOS boot.
>> > I'm sure I misunderstood you. What are all the files that should be
>> > edited, and what should they contain?
>>
>> There is only one file to edit - /etc/grub.d/40_custom. I think Tom H is
>> suggesting you have
>>
>> menuentry "DOS (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" {
>> insmod part_msdos
>> insmod fat
>> set root='(hd0,1)'
>> chainloader +1
>> }
>>
>> You can check DOS is on /dev/sda1 using 'cfdisk /dev/sda'.
>>
>
file -s /dev/sda (as root) will also show you what the partition/drive is,
but that's trivial, as long as it works for you.
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