Hi Louis and Jerome, as advanced user, I am against installers zapping my MBR without even looking at it. I would need a bootable CD to repair my boot menu, or would need to know how to do that with DOS. Enough users neither have boot repair CD prepared nor know how to use DOS tool methods for restoring a backup of their MBR.
As mentioned probably a few weeks ago, please overwrite the MBR ONLY if it was empty... By EMPTY, I mean no code present at all. Which is the state that you will probably see when you bought an empty harddisk or made a new virtual computer to install DOS on. You can mention in the readme that users can issue [some command] at the DOS prompt after booting from the CD to overwrite the MBR. That will allow them to do that at their own risk IF they want. You could even add a dialog to ask the user whether they want to overwrite their MBR, but this includes the risk that people would say yes without careful thinking. Also, as said, this should ONLY be required if the MBR was empty before. So I suggest to grab and backup a copy of the MBR first. Second, check if it had boot code and only third, only if not, write the boot code which was missing. Thanks! Regards, Eric >> This is a known problem that has been undergoing consideration on >> how best to resolve the issue. The SYS command used by the >> installer does not force an overwrite of the old boot code in the >> MBR. This would damage the boot loader of a multi boot system. >> However, this seems to cause at least as many problems as it >> solves. >> >> At present, the current thinking is to backup the MBR and push a >> new one regardless of the current MBR. > > The advanced user in me likes this. But, is there an easy way for > the advanced user to re-install the backed up MBR? To me, this > creates an additional liability that FD should be prepared/able to > solve. > > I advocate for FDI to Prompt, backup MBR, and then overwrite. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
