Chips Olden composed on 2024-10-15 03:50 (UTC+0100): > I'm curious, with your obvious Linux experience (what on /earth /do you > need that many versions of Linux for anyway?
Troubleshooting that includes specific hardware, and/or crosschecks failure among distros to determine whether distro or upstream to blame. > In the day & age of > high-powered CPU's and cheap RAM is virtualisation not an option?), AFAICT, one cannot troubleshoot hardware issues using virtualization. I /have/ been using virtualization since 1992, when I first bought OS/2 to run DOS apps. I'm pretty sure 1992 was before any Linux distro offered it. > wouldn't you have been more cautious with partitioning in the first > place? How cautious can anyone be using only one disk? Only about 5-6 out of 40+ working PCs here have more than one disk, and most of those are on account of using RAID. I have my partitioning logs. Lost tables are a non-issue here. > 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. I boot Windows maybe 2-3 time/year, with ethernet cable disconnected most times. I stop with 10. No more new Windows versions to come here. > With as many partitions/installs as you have? I would've been /extremely > /cautious & paranoid, doing the partitioning in something like Gparted The FreeDOS installer had no reason to touch the tables except to look. sda2 was prepped for it. > (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. 5 operating systems, one partitioner: http://www.dfsee.com/. Text mode pulldown menu interface with command line interface, like in Norton Commander and its workalikes, it's scriptable, and it logs everything. > 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. FreeDOS's fault is it's assumption it has any right or reason to touch the partition table when all it needed was ready to sys and copy to. If it thinks it needs to, it should explain why and ask permission. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
