Re: [Freedos-user] "Upgrade" from MS-DOS 6.2.2

2024-02-29 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
My apologies..perhaps if there had been more aside from your saying you would use something else save for the sound card. Still, I am sorry for my response, you were in a line of others. As a contrast though? Their claim that I should do things differently would be like my saying to you, what

Re: [Freedos-user] "Upgrade" from MS-DOS 6.2.2

2024-02-29 Thread DAMON GRAY via Freedos-user
Well, you had given me good advice, and I was trying to be supportive of your point that people have reasons for what they do and I shouldn't feel compelled to make them feel imbecillic for making the choices they made. I meant no offence. I was actually trying to support your point. I'll just

Re: [Freedos-user] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

2024-02-29 Thread Jay F. Shachter via Freedos-user
Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Charles Hudson via Freedos-user would write on Thu Feb 29 10:44:56 2024: > > On a Lenovo R400 laptop with an existing Fedora 39 KDE system, booted by > GRUB2, I decided to add a new partition and install FreeDOS 1.3. > The Intel Core2 DUO processor lac

Re: [Freedos-user] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

2024-02-29 Thread Tomas By via Freedos-user
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:44:56 +0100, Charles Hudson via Freedos-user wrote: > [...] However, I seem to have blitzed my Linux installation as the > GRUB2 bootloader no longer appears nor loads Fedora 39. [...] > Supposing that this may have happened to some other user, I am > posting a question here,

Re: [Freedos-user] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

2024-02-29 Thread Felix Miata via Freedos-user
Charles Hudson composed on 2024-02-29 11:44 (UTC-0500): > I could in other words reinstall the Linux system but as a learning > exercise I though I would see if GRUB could be rebuilt. Supposing that > this may have happened to some other user, I am posting a question here, > asking for advice on

[Freedos-user] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

2024-02-29 Thread Charles Hudson via Freedos-user
On a Lenovo R400 laptop with an existing Fedora 39 KDE system, booted by GRUB2, I decided to add a new partition and install FreeDOS 1.3. The Intel Core2 DUO processor lacks VM extensions so I decided to install on the SSD. I resized the BRTFS partition to create a new 3 GiB FAT32 partition, label