On a Lenovo R400 laptop with an existing Fedora 39 KDE system, booted by GRUB2, I decided to add a new partition and install FreeDOS 1.3. The Intel Core2 DUO processor lacks VM extensions so I decided to install on the SSD. I resized the BRTFS partition to create a new 3 GiB FAT32 partition, labeled "DOS", on which to install.
Using the FD 1.3 Live CD I proceeded with installation: If there was a choice offered of where to install I missed it, but I was relieved to see installation picked the DOS partition. Using fdisk I verified the existence of two Linux partitions and one FAT32 partition, which I made active. Installation failed, however, as I found I needed to format the partition first. I issued the command "format /s". After doing so installation carried to completion. After reboot the machine booted into a menu of FreeDOS options and after selecting one processed the initialization files and left me at a C:\ prompt. However, I seem to have blitzed my Linux installation as the GRUB2 bootloader no longer appears nor loads Fedora 39. My investigations into the repair of the MBR and attempts at restoration of GRUB2 have been unsuccessful: At this point neither Linux nor FD boot and the machine BIOS complains about the parameters. I am able to verify that the Linux file system is intact by means of a Fedora 39 KDE Live .iso image loaded onto a USB disk, and I have offloaded the contents of my Home directory. I could in other words reinstall the Linux system but as a learning exercise I though I would see if GRUB could be rebuilt. Supposing that this may have happened to some other user, I am posting a question here, asking for advice on how to handle this situation. Thank you for your suggestions. <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free.www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
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