On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Mark Spalenka <markspalenka2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Using MEMDISK in GRUB to boot FREEDOS from the local hard drive on later > model machines is what I am getting from you as a solution to boot FreeDOS > from a local Harddrive on a laptop. If you have any other solutions that > would allow me to boot FreeDOS from a Hard Drive I would be interested in > learning. Once again, I just want to boot FreeDOS from my Harddrive on a > Centrino or Later model PC. I have linux on this PC. I do not want to share > any memory with another Operating System. This is called 'Booting Native' as > I understand terminology. I want to boot FreeDos Native and then maybe, just > maybe, put Linux in a DOS Box of memory. Any other suggestions? Thanks for > the help.
As others have mentioned doing, what I do is multi-boot. The FreeDOS machine is an ancient Fujitsu notebook, with a <1ghz Transmeta CPU, IDE4 HD, onboard ATI graphics, and 256MB RAM (of which the CPU grabs 16MB for code morphing.) I came to me with WinXP SP2, and took 8 minutes to simply boot, and far longer to do anything once it was. I wiped it, and re-partitioned. A partition was NTFS and got Win2K, which actually runs sort of acceptably. Two partitions got ext4, and got Ubuntu and Puppy Linux. A partition got FAT32 and got FreeDOS. NTFS could see the FreeDOS slice (and the ext4 slices, courtesy of an open source driver.) The Linux installs could see the FreeDOS slice, and each mounted the other's partition when booted so they could see each other. FreeDOS could only see it's own slice, but I didn't care. They multi-booted using Grub2. I *did* have to fiddle to get FreeDOS to boot from Grub2, and don't recall exactly what the magic was that made it work, but once it worked I could boot directly to FreeDOS as a native OS. Big lacks were support for my USB flash drives and networking. But I wasn't trying to browse from FreeDOS, and could transfer things to the FreeDOS drive from Windows, Linux, or a USB Floppy drive, so networking wasn't critical. Elsewhere, I use the open source fork of DOSBox called vDOS to run DOS apps under 64 bit Windows, and don't care about FreeDOS itself. > Mark Spalenka ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
