Is your partition for Freedos marked bootable? Is it a primary partition (though I'm not sure if Grub cares or not).
--- Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo, > > some time ago I've installed FreeDOS (beside the > other OS-es), and it was > working fine. My disk has been divided in following > way: > > Name Flags Part Type FS Type > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > hde1 Boot Primary W95 FAT32 > (LBA) > hde2 Primary Linux ReiserFS > hde3 Primary Linux swap / > Solaris > hde4 Primary NetBSD > > But recently I decided to upgrade FreeDOS 0.9x to > the new V1.0 - and that's > cause of my problem. > > At the beginning, I made the installation starting > from installing FreeDOS, > and then Linux and NetBSD has been installed. Of > course, I'm unable to do > this in such way now - I don't want to clean the > disk. I made the > installation from CD - downloaded from > FreeDOS-mirror - but FreeDOS doesn't > boot, using GRUB, anymore. My GRUB FreeDOS-related > section looks like this: > > title FreeDOS > root (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > ...and it was working before FreeDOS upgrade. > > I'm unable to fix this. I've found some tips using > the Google - but none of > them fix the problem. Booting from CD and then > trying "sys a: c:" didn't > make any better (although there was message "system > transferred"). Now I can > only boot from FreeDOS-CD, and only then access DOS > partition. > > My question is, of course, what should I do to make > FreeDOS boot like > before - directly from HDD, using GRUB? > > I read the page > http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=Installing_FreeDOS/23 > where I saw, that the FreeDOS' problems with GRUB > are nothing new - first > messages are dated for 2003. I really can't > uderstand, why the FreeDOS > creators seem to be ignoring this problem since 3 > years - although it's > quite essential issue to have possibility just to > install and run FreeDOS, > without a need to spend hours looking (fruitlessy) > for the solution. > > Is somebody able to help me? > -- > pozdrawiam / regards > > Zbigniew Baniewski > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support > web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated > technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 > based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited (http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
