Re: installation problems

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:

> Is it possible to boot FreeDOS from the second harddisk?

yes, but it will read config.sys from C:\

> My system has several partitions and there are two FAT partitions.
> The first FAT partition is on the first harddisk (hda3), in DOS it is
> seen as drive C:. I want to keep that for booting Win95.
> The second FAT partition is the first partition on the second drive.
> The drive is on the primary IDE as slave (hdb1). This partition I want
> to use to boot FreeDOS from.
>
> I use LILO as bootmanager.
>
> What I tried so far is
>
> 1. to boot from floppy and enter "sys a: d:" and put the following into
> the lilo.conf:
> other = /dev/hdb1
>   label=FreeDOS

What happens? Apart from "it doesn't work"?

You could also try to boot from C: without damaging your Win95
installation, as follows:
sys a: c: bootsect.fd
this will not overwrite your boot sector on C: but create a boot sector
file (see also sys /?).

Then copy bootsect.fd to /boot in Linux and use

other = /dev/hda3
	loader=/boot/bootsect.fd
	Label=FreeDOS

Rerun lilo and try again. Use fdconfig.sys if you want a different
config.sys than the one used for Win95.

Bart