Thanks Robert - I read through the bootmgr.txt file and then gave bootmgr a try. The first hard disk is a 250GB SSD with (3) 32GB FAT32 partitions. The rest of the drive is unallocated because I thought I would install a Linux partition there later on.
Windows 2000 is in the first partition, FreeDOS is in the second partition. The third partition is empty. I was planning on using it for data files.FreeDOS was installed after Windows 2000. I do have a second drive but have not set up bootmgr in it. The second drive does have a working FreeDOS installation that I can access if I go into my BIOS and swap drives, which is what I'm trying to avoid. That second drive doesn't have any other operating system in it. I included a link to a screenshot of my bootmgr setup. I think I have it right but maybe not? I setup 3 choices: FreeDOS, Windows 2000, and the floppy drive. FreeeDOS gets an error. Windows 2000 and the floppy boot ok. I'm getting basically the same kind of error I was getting with other multi-boot methods. When I try to boot FreeDOS, I get a message saying" NTLDR is missing" which tells me bootmgr is probably going to the right partition because FreeDOS doesn't have a NTLDR file, which of course Windows 2000 does have. http://allenthings.com/bootmgr1.jpg Marvin Allen On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 1:20 PM Robert Riebisch <r...@bttr-software.de> wrote: > Hi Marv, > > > I spent the last 3 days fooling around with several ways to set my > > Windows 2000/FreeDOS machine set up with a multi-boot menu. I tried GAG, > > Grub4Dos, and the boot.ini file that Windows 2000 uses. > > Many years ago I had the DOS/Win2000 combo working on a single drive > using our: https://www.bttr-software.de/products/bootmgr/ > The key is to hide unneeded partitions from the other OS. > See screenshot #2. > > Cheers, > Robert > -- > +++ BTTR Software +++ > Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ > DOS ain't dead: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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