Re: [Freedos-user] Partitions freedos can boot from
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 19:40 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The best tool I know of for manipulating and resizing > partitions is GParted. There is a GREAT LiveCD including > GParted available at gparted.sourceforge.net. The > System Rescue CD also includes GParted: > > .sysresccd.org > > Mark Bailey I also second Gparted (when looking at qt_parted and others). I've had problems using the GParted provided livecd. The next best bet with the latest Gparted and other parted libs is SystemRescueCD (as you already noted). (FYI: systemrescuecd is also based on the Gentoo system. :-) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Fri Apr 27 13:12:29 PDT 2007 - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Partitions freedos can boot from
The default MBR on a hard drive boots THE primary partition marked active. A boot loader like GRUB, LILO, GAG, or whatever can boot any partition. IIRC, however, the FreeDOS kernel won't start correctly from a logical partition. FWIW, the Linux kernel is perfectly happy booting from a logical partition. And, the Linux swap partition can be in a logical partition also. That suggests an easy fix for your system...create an extended partition as /dev/hda4, put a swap partition in it, and put FreeDOS in /dev/hda1. (These are the linux designations for the hard disk partitions.) The best tool I know of for manipulating and resizing partitions is GParted. There is a GREAT LiveCD including GParted available at gparted.sourceforge.net. The System Rescue CD also includes GParted: .sysresccd.org Mark Bailey -- Original message -- From: roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 23:43 -0400, Bonnie Dalzell wrote: > > So i have still not determined wether freedos can boot from a > > logical partition using grub. > > (All Primary Partitions) > /dev/hda1 LinuxSwap 364MB > /dev/hda2 Linux ReiserFS 30GB > /dev/hda3 FreeDOS Fat32 1GB > > /etc/grub.conf > --- Begin of Snip --- > title=FreeDOS > map (hd0,0) (hd0,2) > map (hd0,2) (hd0,0) > rootnoverify (hd0,2) > makeactive > chainloader /fdosboot.img > boot > --- End of Snip --- > > > I thought only primary partitions were bootable. And even then, some > bioses have a size limitation of what is considered a bootable > partition. (ie. 1024 Cylinder Limit) > > -- > Roger > http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html > Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 > > Mon Apr 23 22:28:38 PDT 2007 - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Partitions freedos can boot from
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 23:43 -0400, Bonnie Dalzell wrote: > So i have still not determined wether freedos can boot from a > logical partition using grub. (All Primary Partitions) /dev/hda1 LinuxSwap 364MB /dev/hda2 Linux ReiserFS 30GB /dev/hda3 FreeDOS Fat32 1GB /etc/grub.conf --- Begin of Snip --- title=FreeDOS map (hd0,0) (hd0,2) map (hd0,2) (hd0,0) rootnoverify (hd0,2) makeactive chainloader /fdosboot.img boot --- End of Snip --- I thought only primary partitions were bootable. And even then, some bioses have a size limitation of what is considered a bootable partition. (ie. 1024 Cylinder Limit) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Mon Apr 23 22:28:38 PDT 2007 - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Partitions freedos can boot from
In relation to my partition problem on the Pentium 3 Gateway. I reinstalled linux in rescue mode and the reinstall oof grub recognized that freedos was there in the logical partition but I still could not get it to boot - still had the error 12. Since I really did not have anything critical on the linux install I redid the linux install entirely on my second primary partition and reformatted the first primary partition as a fat 32 and put freedos on it and it boots just fine. So i have still not determined wether freedos can boot from a logical partition using grub. my advice, based on this experience, for anyone setting up a new system is to make a primary fat partition for freedos. ~~~ Bonnie Dalzell, MA mail:5100 Hydes Rd Hydes MD USA 21082-EMAIL:[EMAIL PROTECTED] freelance anatomist, vertebrate paleontologist, writer, illustrator, dog breeder, computer nerd & iconoclast... Borzoi info at www.borzois.com. Editor Net.Pet Online Animal Magazine - http://www.netpetmagazine.com HOME http://www.qis.net/~borzoi/ BUSINESS http://www.batw.com - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Partitions freedos can boot from
Still experimenting with freedos I have access to a pentium III (cheap,used) laptop which had some unused space on the harddrive. Originally I had set it up with Ubuntu Linux and with my alternate OS - Amiga/Amithlon which has the boot files in the linux boot partition but has its OS on a hardfile in its own partition. Both worked. It had 4 primary partitions, Ext2 Linux to boot, Ext3 Linux for home, a nonwindows partition for a drive image for another os (amithlon) and a small swap partition. I realized when I wanted to put Freedos on it that I could not have 5 primary partitions. To edit the partitions I had to boot off a Linux CD. Since I could not move anything around the best I could do was to delete/deactivate the small linux swap partition - giving me the ability to shrink the ext3 partition. Then I made a new primary partition and put two logical partitions in it - a fat32 partition for freedos and a small swap partition for linux. The new primary partition is hda3, the new fat partition is hda6. at this time, using grub, linux boots ok and the amithlon boots ok. I used the gnome partition editor to set the boot flag for hda6 to boot. I used the freedos CD to install freedos on the vfat partition. I can boot freedos off its CD and use the vfat partition but I cannot get it to boot from its entry in grub Its entry reads as so root (hd0,5) mackeactive chainloader +1 I have some things to fiddle with but it occured to me to ask this question: Can Freedos boot of a logical partition such as my hda6? If not I will need to reformat the harddrive and start all over. There is not any data I will loose by doing this - just a lot of time so I would rather figure out how to get freedos to work without doing this. ~~ Bonnie Dalzell, MA mail:5100 Hydes Rd Hydes MD USA 21082-EMAIL:[EMAIL PROTECTED] freelance anatomist, vertebrate paleontologist, writer, illustrator, dog breeder, computer nerd & iconoclast... Borzoi info at www.borzois.com. Editor Net.Pet Online Animal Magazine - http://www.netpetmagazine.com HOME http://www.qis.net/~borzoi/ BUSINESS http://www.batw.com - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
