Re: [Freedos-user] Problem installing FreeDOS together with Win98SEusing metakern

2008-06-19 Thread Anton Shepelev
All right. To your judgement is presented a patch for the metakern manual that I think will make things clearer for unexperienced users. Hope it sounds OK: The best way to install FreeDOS on a common partition with another OS would be to make a dump of its bootsect

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem installing FreeDOS together with Win98SEusing metakern

2008-06-16 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > the corresponding code snippet from FDISK, where offsets >= 0x1BE > are filled with zeros by design (second do/while loop). Does anyone > (Eric?) know the reason? Sounds okay if you only want the MBR code and not the partition table, but of course you also zap the 55 aa "this is bootable"

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem installing FreeDOS together with Win98SEusing metakern

2008-06-16 Thread Robert Riebisch
Anton Shepelev wrote: > I know my problem was confusion between MBR and the boot sector. Eric already told me. ;-) > But anyway, fdisk and bootmgr should return the same data... FDISK is wrong. BOOTMGR is right. *g* Here's the corresponding code snippet from FDISK, where offsets >= 0x1BE are f

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem installing FreeDOS together with Win98SEusing metakern

2008-06-16 Thread Robert Riebisch
Anton Shepelev wrote: >Dear, Bernd, everything had been fine (paths and filesizes) >but one thing: fdisk and bootmgr were returning wrong >bootsector dumps! Are you talking about BOOTMGR from BTTR Software? Then I'm one of the authors. I've never heard this problem before.