> On Jan 25, 2022, at 4:16 PM, andrea...@tiscali.it wrote: > > OK, it's an old annoing question:I have a laptop with linux installed and I > created another dos / fat 32 partition where I installed freedos 1.3. (before > installing freedos I activated C:\ms-dos with part.exe). > OK Freedos, but disappears Linux MBR, and I can't anymore access linux > although I have grub installed. > With GAG cd live you see linux but it is not loaded due to problems in the > MBR. > The only way to repair the MBR and log in again in linux was to use the BOOT > REPAIR live cd. > Or another way to solve the problem? > Thanks, > andrea
During installation, the installer creates two backups and stores them in C:\FreeDOS\ as BOOT.MBR and BOOT.BSS. The MBR is created by FDISK when it is told to update the boot code. The second is created by the SYS command. You should be able to use FDISK to restore the MBR. There is an excellent free DOS utility called MBRTOOL. It is not open source and has some other distribution restrictions. But, it is free and can be legally distributed as-is. Do to those restrictions it cannot be included with the FreeDOS release. But, you can grab a mirrored copy from my website at https://fd.lod.bz/redist/disk/MBRtool/ <https://fd.lod.bz/redist/disk/MBRtool/> v1.x is much smaller than v2.x. But, both work really well. It is a great tool to have laying around for emergencies. :-) Jerome > > > Con Tiscali Mobile Smart 70 hai 70 GB in 4G, minuti illimitati e 100 SMS a > soli 7,99€ al mese http://tisca.li/Smart70 <http://tisca.li/Smart70> > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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