Re: [Freedos-user] Install has run amok on my hard drives

[Arkady V.Belousov]

Hi!

2-Июн-2006 18:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:

 >> >> I wanted FreeDOS to leave my Recovery Partition alone and to install 
itself
 >> >> on my D: drive. Instead, without any instruction from me, it has 
modified my
BC> DOS (including FreeDOS) will only boot from the first recognized
BC> partition.

  No. DOS booted from any partition, from where it will started by MBR.
And (default) MBR loads boot sector from any primary partition, marked as
"active" (bootable). The more so, with help of (3rd party, non-standard)
boot manager you may load DOS from anything (primary or logical partition),
but C: is assigned by DOS to primary partition, which marked as "active".

BC> Sof it you want to do this, you would have to use GRUB or
BC> another boot manager to 'switch' D: to C:.

  Not neccessary: SYS should copy system files (kernel.sys in case of 
FreeDOS) _to_ _any_ requested partition, then you may start boot sector 
from there in any way - through standard MBR (by making this partition 
"active" before rebooting) or through 3rd party boot manager (which may or 
may not mark booted partition as "active").


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Re: [Freedos-user] Install has run amok on my hard drives

[Blair Campbell]

> I wanted FreeDOS to leave my Recovery Partition alone and to install itself
> on my D: drive. Instead, without any instruction from me, it has modified my

DOS (including FreeDOS) will only boot from the first recognized
partition.  Sof it you want to do this, you would have to use GRUB or
another boot manager to 'switch' D: to C:.

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[Freedos-user] Install has run amok on my hard drives

[James Haley]

Hello,

I could barely understand any of the installation directions for FreeDOS 
because they were muddled up with information that does not pertain to me, 
as I already have a primary FAT partition just waiting and ready to receive 
it, so I just went ahead and ran the install off the bootable CD hoping that 
it would be clear enough for me to follow. Boy, I was wrong.

My system is setup like this:

[Main drive]
[Primary Partition: NTFS (WinXP)] <- Windows calls this C:
[Secondary Paritition: FAT32 (Recovery] <- Windows calls this D:, FreeDOS 
calls it C:

[Slave Drive]
[Primary Partition: FAT] <- Windows calls this F:, FreeDOS calls it D:

I wanted FreeDOS to leave my Recovery Partition alone and to install itself 
on my D: drive. Instead, without any instruction from me, it has modified my 
recovery partition, possibly rendering it permanently useless, and it 
installed the packages to D: -- the C: drive isn't even bootable! If I try 
booting that disk, it boots XP because XP is in the primary partition, 
naturally.

I tried to make D: bootable by using the sys command, but when I boot the 
disk now, I see some kind of unintelligible menu about an IO error that 
stays on the screen for approximately one second before being flooded away 
by about 1000 pages worth of identical Invalid Opcode errors. Once these 
stop, pressing anything or attempting to reboot the system causes an 
additional few hundred pages worth of semi-random ASCII to fly by and then 
the system hard locks while blaring a high-pitched tone on the PC speaker.

I'm sure FreeDOS is great to use, but only if you can actually install it. 
What have I done wrong, how can I fix it, and for God's sake, can somebody 
please just explain the process of how to get FreeDOS onto a particular disk 
without discussing things I *don't* need to do like FDISK or formatting? If 
it isn't possible to use FreeDOS the way I want to (bootable from what it 
thinks is my D: drive), I would also appreciate that being stated in plain 
English. I'm a smart guy with a CS degree, but this stuff is still opaque to 
me.

Thanks,

James Haley




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