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.
I left out an important "not". It was *supposed* to read:
...an ability to not disturb anything that is _not_ 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?--
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
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