Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation gone wrong
Hi, In addition to what others have said about restoring the Win 98 bootsectors, I'll suggest one more thing. Restoring those bootsectors will allow you to boot into Win 98 fine from LILO, but you still have to do things to be able to boot into FreeDOS. For that, what I'd suggest is to re-install FreeDOS and when it asks if you want to install the bootsectors, choose NO. Then, when it drops you into the command prompt, type SYS D: to install the FreeDOS bootsectors onto D:. It might give an error about KERNEL.SYS not being found (it gave for me), but you can solve that by changing to C: and then doing SYS D: (this is coz the KERNEL.SYS file is installed onto C: for some reason). Now you can add an entry into LILO for booting this D: partition. And FreeDOS should boot fine. :) By the way, I said to re-install above coz I don't remeber the exact installation steps and so am not sure if there's some option to simply get to the FreeDOS command prompt (in case of Win98 you had the startup disk, in case of FreeDOS I dunno). Once you get to the command prompt, you can simply do SYS D: (and the rest of the steps) like I said above ... and you are done! Hope that helps. Welcome to FreeDOS! :) Thanks, Rakhesh - Original message - From: B or J Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:14:25 +1000 Subject: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation gone wrong Hello, I have just installed FreeDOS on my duel boot Windows / Linux PC. I attempted to install it on d: but it has interfered with Windows, which is on my C: When I select Windows from the lilo menu I now get the following message and the computer hangs:- Loading FreeDOS No KERNEL SYS How can I restore Windows again, so far all attempts have failed. Kind regards, Brian --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Restoring XP bootsector (yes, I goofed up!)
Lucho, Thanks for those bootsectors. :) One quick question -- I have a Windows XP startup disk, and since that startup disk can be used to invoke ntldr and show the usual boot options menu, is it possible that I can use whatever bootsectors are there on the floppy and write those to my C: drive? Infact, I just tried that before writing this post (though I didn't use the BOOTSECT command, I used the linux 'dd' command (which does a similar task I believe)) ... but things didn't work. This kind of got me apprehensive, and so I thought I'd figure what went wrong before applying your 2000 or 2003 bootsectors. Thanks again, Rakhesh - Original message - From: Luchezar Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:05:30 +0300 Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Restoring XP bootsector (yes, I goofed up!) Rakhesh, here's another one - my Windows 2003 bootsector I extracted using BOOTSECT 0 -P -R BSW2K3.BIN - may it work for you. Write it using BOOTSECT 0 -P -W BSW2K3.BIN. Good luck! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS
On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 03:37:37 -0400, Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Last version I personally released was 0.6. 0.7 followed that. It's a one-disk binary-only installation of FreeDOS, pretty much the complete base set. I see. Thanks for clarfiying that. :) By the way, offtopic to this discussion, is there any place where I can download the FreeDOS documentations for an offline reading? Maybe as text or html-zipped or even pdf files? Thanks, Rakhesh --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Will FreeDOS work from a primary slave partition?
Thank you all! :) I have GRUB installed, which is what I am using to boot between all the different OSes. So my understanding based on all that I have read so far is that: 1. I can tell the FreeDOS install program to install itself on a primary partition on my secondary master drive. 2. Since my current win 98 partition (a primary partition on the primary master drive) is C:, FreeDOS looks for its startup files there and so I'd better make ensure my fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat files are present in C:. 3. FreeDOS would automatically install its boot sector in the drive that I install it to, and I can tell GRUB to chainload that partition (the way I do for win 98/ win xp currently). Righto? Rakhesh --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
