I'm curious, with your obvious Linux experience (what on /earth /do you
need that many versions of Linux for anyway? In the day & age of
high-powered CPU's and cheap RAM is virtualisation not an option?),
wouldn't you have been more cautious with partitioning in the first
place? I mean, heck, when I do a Windows reinstall I disconnect all
other physical drives because I know Windows sometimes does
some...oddities...with partitioning and I don't want it messing anything up.
With as many partitions/installs as you have? I would've been /extremely
/cautious & paranoid, doing the partitioning in something like Gparted
(I'm no terminal guru, never did get around to figuring out how to
partition in a complicated manner in command line), or whatever Linux
partitioner of your choosing, and just doing the install its self from
FreeDOS. GRUB has no problem picking up a FreeDOS install that way either.
Just my two pennies.
I don't think FreeDOS was at fault here, I can't imagine it was ever
intended to be part of a partitioning scheme as complex as yours.
On 15/10/2024 2:47 am, Felix Miata via Freedos-user wrote:
Felix Miata composed on 2024-10-14 20:47 (UTC-0400):
After at least 3 decades, one might think a DOS disk partitioner, or the FreeDOS
installer, might have acquired an ability to not disturb anything that is part
of
the target partition. No such was or is apparent. Now that FreeDOS is installed,
only it can be booted, because it presumed it OK to move the boot flag off the
partition on which I placed it. Fdisk remains of the errant notion that the boot
flag can only be valid on a DOS partition, which is wholly untrue. Now I must
locate some bootable Linux CD to boot for the singular purpose of changing two
bytes in the partition table in order to make my other 20+ operating systems
bootable again.
What other damage is awaiting my discovery once the boot flag is back where it
was?
Turns out, lots of damage: about 29 logical partitions deleted. The following is how I
found it after FreeDOS installation:
DFSee Linux 17.0 : executing: fdisk -r- -w-
Command timestamp : Monday 2024-10-14 17:06:43
+---+--+--+-----------------+--------+--------+-----------+----------------------------------------+-----------+
|ID |ux|Dr|Type, description|Format |Related |VolumeLabel|OS2-LVM/BM / GPT /
Crypt / additional in| Size MiB |
+--[/dev/sda MBR disk 1]--------+--------+-----------[ST160 PATA
9RX4RLF0]--------------------+-----------+
|01*| 1| |Hide 16 FAT16 |FAT16 |MSWIN4.1|P01WINDOS |P01 WinDOS
P01 WinDOS | 39.2|
|02*| 2| |Prim 0b FAT32 |FAT32 |FRDOS5.1|P02FREEDOS |P02 FreeDOS
P02 FreeDOS | 243.2|
|03>| 3| |Prim 83 LinuxNatv|EXT2 |GRUB |03boot |P03 Real /boot
P03 Real /boot | 400.1|
|04 | 5| |Log 82 SunS/SWAP|SWAP |LinuxV1 |SWAPSPACE2 |P05 swapper
P05 swapper | 188.2|
|08 | | |FreeSpace Logical|-- -- --|-- -- --|- - - - - -|
| 151757.1|
Because the partitioner I use logs, I only needed to view the previous log
to recreate that which was deleted, with result identical to the state in
which FreeDOS found it:
DFSee Linux 17.0 : executing: part
Command timestamp : Monday 2024-10-14 17:19:05
+---+--+--+-----------------+--------+--------+-----------+----------------------------------------+-----------+
|ID |ux|Dr|Type, description|Format |Related |VolumeLabel|OS2-LVM/BM / GPT /
Crypt / additional in| Size MiB |
+--[/dev/sda MBR disk 1]--------+--------+-----------[ST160 PATA
9RX4RLF0]--------------------+-----------+
|01*| 1| |Hide 16 FAT16 |FAT16 |MSWIN4.1|P01WINDOS |P01 WinDOS
P01 WinDOS | 39.2|
|02*| 2| |Prim 0b FAT32 |FAT32 |FRDOS5.1|P02FREEDOS |P02 FreeDOS
P02 FreeDOS | 243.2|
|03>| 3| |Prim 83 LinuxNatv|EXT2 |GRUB |03boot |P03 Real /boot
P03 Real /boot | 400.1|
|04 | 5| |Log 82 SunS/SWAP|SWAP |LinuxV1 |SWAPSPACE2 |P05 swapper
P05 swapper | 188.2|
|05 | 6| |Lhid 11 FAT12 |FAT12 |mkdosfs |DUMMY |P06 dummy
P06 dummy | 7.8|
|06 | 7| |Log 06 FAT16 |FAT16 |-DFSee- |P06 SS16A |P07 DOS data
P07 DOS data | 251.0|
|07*| 8| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |08stw |P08 TW Slowroll
P08 TW Slowroll | 5600.8|
|08*| 9| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |suse114 |P09 suse114
P09 suse114 | 4800.6|
|09*|10| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |suse121 |P10 suse121
P10 suse121 | 4800.6|
|10*|11| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |suse122 |P11 suse122
P11 suse122 | 4800.6|
|11*|12| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |suse123 |P12 suse123
P12 suse123 | 4800.6|
|12 |13| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |Linux |13home |P13 /home
P13 /home | 7201.0|
|13 |14| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |Linux |14usrlcl |P14 /usr/local
P14 /usr/local | 2047.3|
|14 |15| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |Linux |15pub |P15 /pub
P15 /pub | 8589.4|
|15*|16| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |suse131 |P16 suse131
P16 suse131 | 4800.6|
|16*|17| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |f21p17 |P17 Fedora 21
P17 Fedora 21 | 4800.6|
|17*|18| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |f24p18 |P18 Fedora 24
P18 Fedora 24 | 4800.6|
|18*|19| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |19sslo |P19 TW Slowroll
P19 TW Slowroll | 5600.8|
|19*|20| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |20mga09 |P20 Mageia 9
P20 Mageia 9 | 5600.8|
|20*|21| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |f28p21 |P21 Fedora 28
P21 Fedora 28 | 4800.6|
|21*|22| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |suse132 |P22 suse132
P22 suse132 | 4800.6|
|22*|23| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |debian13 |Debian 13 Trixie
Debian 13 Trixie | 5600.8|
|23 |24| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|unknown |Linux | |-
| 5600.8|
|24 |25| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|unknown |Linux | |-
| 5600.8|
|25 |26| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|unknown |Linux | |-
| 5600.8|
|26 |27| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|unknown |Linux | |
| 5600.8|
|27 | | |FreeSpace Logical|-- -- --|-- -- --|- - - - - -|
| 2651.4|
|27*|28| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |mageia8 |Mageia 8
Mageia 8 | 4800.6|
|28*|29| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |debian10 |Debian 10 Buster
Debian 10 Buster | 4800.6|
|29*|30| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |f30p30 |P30 Fedora 30
P30 Fedora 30 | 4800.6|
|30*|31| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |debian11 |Debian 11 Bullseye
Debian 11 Bullseye | 4800.6|
|31*|32| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |debian12 |Debian 12 Bookworm
Debian 12 Bookworm | 5600.8|
|32*|33| |Log 83 LinuxNatv|EXT3 |GRUB |fedor29 |Fedora 29
Fedora 29 | 4800.6|
|36 | | |FreeSpace Logical|-- -- --|-- -- --|- - - - - -|
| 13392.6|
All good now, but disappointed in FreeDOS.
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