On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Garry Ricketson <garryricket...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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,,..
Already did that, multiple times, and fiddled with the generated Grub menu. > I am useing LinuxMint 10 (juliet), don't know if that matters much, but it > is worth a try,, Mint is a Ubuntu derivate, and things should be the same for any distro using Grub2. > 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 As I said, this *used* to work. I have a suspiscion I'm missing something simple/stupid, and I'll pound my head on the desk when I find out what. > 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,.. I'm not quite ready to back up, wipe the partition, and redo from scratch, but getting close. Thanks for chiming in. > From Garry ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
