The default MBR on a hard drive boots THE primary partition marked active. A boot loader like GRUB, LILO, GAG, or whatever can boot any partition. IIRC, however, the FreeDOS kernel won't start correctly from a logical partition.
FWIW, the Linux kernel is perfectly happy booting from a logical partition. And, the Linux swap partition can be in a logical partition also. That suggests an easy fix for your system...create an extended partition as /dev/hda4, put a swap partition in it, and put FreeDOS in /dev/hda1. (These are the linux designations for the hard disk partitions.) The best tool I know of for manipulating and resizing partitions is GParted. There is a GREAT LiveCD including GParted available at gparted.sourceforge.net. The System Rescue CD also includes GParted: wwww.sysresccd.org Mark Bailey -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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) > > -- > Roger > http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html > Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 > > Mon Apr 23 22:28:38 PDT 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
