On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 23:43 -0400, Bonnie Dalzell wrote: 
> So i have still not determined wether freedos can boot from a
> logical partition using grub.

(All Primary Partitions)
/dev/hda1 LinuxSwap 364MB
/dev/hda2 Linux ReiserFS 30GB
/dev/hda3 FreeDOS Fat32 1GB

/etc/grub.conf
--- Begin of Snip ---
title=FreeDOS
map (hd0,0) (hd0,2)
map (hd0,2) (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader /fdosboot.img
boot
--- End of Snip ---


I thought only primary partitions were bootable.  And even then, some
bioses have a size limitation of what is considered a bootable
partition. (ie. 1024 Cylinder Limit)

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Roger
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Mon Apr 23 22:28:38 PDT 2007


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