Re: installation problems

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:51:50PM -0500, Bart Oldeman wrote:

> 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:\

Hmm... :-\

> > 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"?

It sais "ROOT FAT KERNEL GO!" and then reboots.

On my first tries it just said "ROOT FAT" and then hung -
but I can't remember what was different then.

BTW. the trick with swapping the drives works with Win95. Some time ago
I had my Win on the second drive and it worked!
Pity that it doesn't work with FreeDOS.

> 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.

Thanks, but it is not quite correct, as you wrote it. 
The keyword "loader" is for the chain-loader, not for the boot image.

I fiddled around with it and found a surprising solution...
Ty syntax for lilo is simply:

other = /boot/bootsect.fd
      Label=FreeDOS

Yes, you really needn't mention the drive at all! It's all in the file. 
Now it works! :-)

It's even not important to copy it to the Linux partition, it just has
to be mounted somewhere, while you install lilo.


P.S.:
Would be nice if one could boot FreeDOS from a deliberate drive in the
future, and if it seeks the config.sys on the drive, it is loaded from.

-- 
Tschuess
	Andreas