Dennis, When I installed FreeDos, to a new partition, for it, all I did was
after it was installed,at the Linux command line I typed:sudo update-grub And
FreeDos was added to the boot list,..boots fine I see you have also tried
replaceing
KERNEL.SYS. with a new kernal,...don't know much about that,,.. I am useing
LinuxMint 10 (juliet), don't know if that matters much, but it is worth a
try,,useing the sudo update-grub on the command line , no need to fiddle with
anything, it all was done automaticly,...maybe I just got lucky!,... You might
also want to try, first back up anyfiles in your dos partition that are
important, and re-install, then try the sudo update-grub ,first before you
start "fiddleing", with the config, or the sys kernel,... Any way good
luck,,...I don't have the link handy, but useing google, and Grub for Dos as
the keywords, I stumbled onto the most recent instructions,..for, grubfordos2,
which is where I read aout the sudo update-grub , option,..
Thank you and have a Good
Day!http://www.garryspages.webs.comhttp://creativeminds.webege.com/phpBB3/index.phpFrom
Garry
>
> I know the topic has been discussed here before, but I'm still
> struggling with this problem.
>
> I multi-boot Win2K Pro, Ubuntu Linux, Puppy Linux, and FreeDOS on an
> old Fujitsu Lifebook. It has a 40GB IDE HD, with a 20GB primary
> partition for 2K, and an extended partition with a 512MB swap areas
> used by Ubuntu and Puppy, a bit over 8GB each for Ubuntu and Puppy,
> and a 2GB slice for FreeDOS, formatted as FAT32.
>
> This used to work.
>
> I had to do a clean reinstall of Win2K to resolve problems. This
> replaced the MBR and broke Grub2. I was able to put Grub2 back and
> recover the earlier multi-boot setup, but booting FreeDOS was broken.
> Attempts to do so from the Grub menu return NOT FOUND KERNEL.SYS.
>
> KERNEL.SYS does exist in the root directory of the FAT32 slice, and
> can be seen as C:\ if I boot from a FreeDOS boot floppy.
>
> Following other suggestions here, I've upgraded to kernel 2040 for
> FAT32, and SYSed it to the HD using the latest SYS. I still get the
> not found error.
>
> As far as I can tell, the Grub menu entry is correct, and fiddling
> with various parameters has brought no success.
>
> My next step might be to copy the stuff I want to preserve over to the
> Win2K slice form Win2K, then delete and recreate the FreeDOS partition
> and do a clean install, but it's not clear that will solve the
> problem.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> ______
> Dennis
>
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