My thanks to all who responded. With your help I managed to
recover the installed Fedora 39 KDE Workstation OS and to install a
modified GRUB2 bootloader that gives me the option of booting Fedora
or FreeDOS. I made a number of discoveries along the way and for
use by anyone who might find themse
Liam Proven composed on 2024-03-04 19:17 (UTC):
> tsiegel wrote:
>> There should be only one active primary partition at any given time.
> Picky-picky. OK, then, reorder the adjectives so that it is no longer
> grammatical English but is more technically accurate.
> The active, first primary pa
On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 18:44, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> There should be only one active primary partition at any given time.
Picky-picky. OK, then, reorder the adjectives so that it is no longer
grammatical English but is more technically accurate.
The active, first primary partition
If you did not save the first megabyte of your hard drive before
overwriting it with your FreeDOS installation, then this is, in my
opinion, the fastest and easiest way to recover:
1. Boot a Linux system from rescue media (exactly as you did in the
session that you recently posted to this mai
Thank you all for your responses. Apparently my responses have been over
the 40k limit; I'm not familiar with the site so pardon my delay in
responding.
There is only one active partition; it is sda1. it got moved to sda3 where
DOS was installed when I used the fdisk that was part of the FreeDOS
There should be only one active primary partition at any given time.
That's what the boot menus handle for you. They set the active flag,
then allow that partition to boot. I don't know what kind of chaos will
ensue if you have multiple active partitions, but it probably won't be
very helpfu
Liam Proven composed on 2024-03-01 17:10 (UTC):
> DOS generally likes to be the 1st active primary partition on an
> MBR-formatted drive.
Which DOS version(s) is/are bootable when more than one active primary is
present
on a drive?
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On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 16:47, Charles Hudson via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> I could in other words reinstall the Linux system but as a learning exercise
> I though I would see if GRUB could be rebuilt.
Sure, it can.
My suggestions are based around Ubuntu as I don't like Fedora much,
but the same g
Yes, you should be able to rerun grub, and have it fix the boot
problem. Another option is to just make the linux partition the active
partition using fdisk. It's likely the dos boot somehow made the dos
partition the active partition. I know grub is supposed to handle this,
but if grub got
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
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,
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
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
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