Re: booting freedos with grub help

[Jeff Sheinberg]

Aaron writes:
 > title windows
 > root (hd0,8)
 > chainloader  /fdosboot.bin
 > 
 > At bootup it says  its booting but then it said can't find kernel.sys.
 > 
 > But kernel.sys is in the root directory of the dos partition.

I am not familiar with "freedos", but some versions of dos will
only work when they are installed in the first partition of the
first hard drive, which must be a primary partition.

One can usually work around the "first hard drive" restriction
with the grub "map" command, but trying to run dos from an
extended partition is probably doomed to failure.

What I do is to create a fat16 partition of 512MB as the first
(primary) partition on the first hard drive, which I then use as a
boot partition, and as the dos partition, eg,

    # mount -v -r /dos-c
    /dev/hda1 on /dos-c type msdos (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,check=strict)

    # ls /dos-c
    autoexec.bak*  boot.lst*     config.sys*  drdos.386*   ibmdos.com*    temp/
    autoexec.bat*  command.com*  debian/      freebsd/     jeff/
    boot/          config.bak*   drdos/       ibmbio.com*  security.bin*

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Jeff Sheinberg