Louis,
Sure. The output is:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1023999 1021952 499M e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
Regards,
Tony
On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 1:07 AM Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tony,
>
> In your Linux VM, could you give the output to `fdisk -l /dev/sda`?
>
> Thanks
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 7:54 AM Tony Richardson <richardson.t...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I wanted to use GRUB to boot FreeDOS. (I wanted to use it so that I
>> could dual-boot FreeDOS and RTEMS, but others may have different reasons.)
>> It is a relatively short procedure so I thought I would contribute it to
>> the mailing list in case others might be interested. I installed FreeDOS in
>> a VirtualBox virtual machine, but the procedure should work on other
>> virtual or physical machines. The FreeDOS fdisk does not leave enough space
>> before the first partition to install GRUB, so I used a Linux SystemRescue
>> CD (system-rescue.org) to partition the (virtual) disk. This CD has all
>> of the tools necessary to partition the drive, format the disk and install
>> GRUB.
>>
>> 1) In VirtualBox create a new 64-bit Linux machine with a 500 MB vdi-type
>> drive (FreeDOS.vdi). Configure the machine to boot off of the SystemRescue
>> CD image. (I had to give the machine 2 GB of memory to boot the CD. The
>> default 512 MB would not allow the machine to boot.)
>>
>> 2) Boot the new machine and create a new maximum size primary partition
>> on the virtual drive (/dev/sda). Change the partition type to 0x0E (a
>> Win95 LBA mapped partition).I use Linux fdisk (enter "fdisk /dev/sda") to
>> do this, but you can use any of the other disk partitioning tools on the CD
>> (gparted is a graphical partitioning tool).
>>
>> 3) Format the new partition by entering "mkfs.msdos /dev/sda1" (You
>> can alternately format the partition as part of the FreeDOS installation.)
>>
>> 4) Halt the Linux machine. (Choose the "Power off the machine" option.)
>>
>> 5) Create a new FreeDOS virtual machine. Choose to use an existing
>> virtual hard disk and attach the FreeDOS.vdi disk. Boot the machine from
>> the FreeDOS live image. Choose the "Install to Harddisk" option from the
>> boot menu. Install FreeDOS. You should be able to boot off the harddisk
>> into FreeDOS at this point.
>>
>> 6) Halt the FreeDOS virtual machine.
>>
>> 7) As part of the installation the FreeDOS master boot loader is
>> installed. We need to rewrite this with GRUB, so restart the Linux machine.
>>
>> 8) Mount the new partition using "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt"
>>
>> 9) Install Grub by entering "grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot
>> /dev/sda"
>>
>> 10) Create a file named "grub.cfg" in the /mnt/boot/grub directory with
>> the following contents:
>> menuentry "FreeDOS" {
>> insmod chain
>> set root=(hd0,1)
>> chainloader +1
>> }
>>
>> 11) Halt the Linux machine.
>>
>> You should now be able to boot the FreeDOS machine off of the hard disk.
>> You should see the GRUB boot menu first now. You can modify the GRUB menu
>> by editting the grub.cfg file in the C:\boot\grub directory. You can
>> delete the Linx machine, but do not delete the files associated with the
>> machine or you will lose your FreeDOS drive. You can move the FreeDOS.vdi
>> file if you want but you will need to play around with the VirtualBox Media
>> Manager to make it available to FreeDOS after the move.
>>
>> Tony Richardson
>>
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