Liam Proven wrote:
This BM and many versions of DOS go way back.
*What* boot manager? I have not seen you specify it.
The only one I know of that name came with OS/2 and is about 25-30
years old, and TBH I would not expect it to work well on modern kit.
Acronis OS Selector V 5.0 2001 (OSS).
On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 at 22:25, Ray Davison wrote:
> I then
> reactivated the boot manger.
Bot manager? :-)
> This BM and many versions of DOS go way back.
*What* boot manager? I have not seen you specify it.
The only one I know of that name came with OS/2 and is about 25-30
years old, and TBH
Hello Ray,
What about the KERNEL location in the tree? Prior to 1.2 it was in the
root, now it is in FDOS\BIN. If I run SYS C: from a 1.1 Floppy, then
copy 1.2 KRNEL386, as KERNEL, over the 1.1 KERNEL, should that leave me
with the 1.2 kernel where it belongs on the drive?
Huh? I would expe
Rugxulo wrote:
The 1.2 kernel has been renamed and moved,
I get "Can't load operating system. Press to reboot..."
Presumably just rename the kernel to "KERNEL.SYS" first. But you may
have to update the boot sector name, too (use SYS or maybe WDE).
What about the KERNEL location in the t
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 3:25 PM Ray Davison wrote:
>
> I now have a coincidence. The 1.2 kernel has been renamed and moved,
> and The boot manager cannot boot the partition. Is there actually a
> cause involved here?
>
> I have pointed the BM to both Kernlxx.sys, command.com, and fdconfig.sy
I am maintaining several machines that do serious work on FD. For
several years they have all had FD 1.1. I just installed 1.2, basic,
over 1.1 on one machine. FD seemed to install OK, and took over booting
the partition as expected. FD 1.2 seemed to load OK. I then
reactivated the boot ma
