What boot manager does this? Currently using BeOS bootman and LILO. Both FreeDOS and Windows XP are on primary partitions. BeOS is also on a primary partition. I have a few other operating systems in logical partitions.
Windows XP was the active partition, and still changed the drive letter to M: and wouldn't change back, even after removing all partitions it could read. > On Dec 6, 2024, at 9:04 PM, Travis Siegel <tsie...@softcon.com> wrote: > > If you have less than 4 operating systems (as it sounds like you do), you > can simply make each partition a primary one, then install the os of choice > in each partition. Then your boot manager will activate the appropriate > primary drive for each os. This means when dos boots, it will have it's > partition be c:, while xp will have it's partition be it's c: drive, and you > won't have to worry about it at all. > > Obviously, ntfs won't be recognized by dos by default, though I'm pretty sure > there's drivers to fix that, but linux os types will recognize those drives > for itself, so you can mount those anywhere you like. > > When you boot windows xp, the dos drive will be drive d:, and the linux > drives won't be recognized (unless you install specific tools from third > party developers to change that. > > Short version is: > > just boot each os, and let it handle things as it wishes, you shouldn't have > any conflicts then. > > >> On 12/6/2024 7:11 PM, Ashley Pirrone via Freedos-user wrote: >> Hi. I tried searching the mailing list archive for an answer, and looked >> extensively on google. I also tried just doing, and messed up a couple XP >> installs. >> >> I would like to multi boot FreeDOS with windows XP. When I ran the >> installer, and installed FreeDOS to the D: drive, it worked. But then when >> I booted into FreeDOS, it was using C: as the system drive. I know it's >> normal to use C: but would like to know how to install it to a different >> drive letter and keep it that way. It interferes with my Windows XP install. >> >> I have 3 primary partitions, and some extended ones for different operating >> systems. Windows and FreeDOS are the only ones which use drive letters so >> only ones that conflict. >> >> I want them in their separate primary partitions, and want Windows XP on an >> NTFS drive, not FAT32. Is there anyway I can do this? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
